Vote Without Fear Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2471.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RUIZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 59, April 3, 2023, Page H1699):
  Article I, section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 of the United States Constitution, to provide for the general welfare and make all laws necessary and proper to carry out the powers of Congress. The single subject of this legislation is: This bill establishes new federal criminal offenses for possessing a firearm or causing a firearm to be present in or within 100 yards of a federal election site.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 3, 2023 ↗

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  390 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2471, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2471

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  86ae8668cb0941dc634d7b8964f4ed6cdf75cc42ad1ea0ee917c5eb9f2fc9e7e

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2471, last updated May 27, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.