American Confidence in Elections: District of Columbia Photographic Poll Books Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4487.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. GONZALEZ-COLON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 116, July 6, 2023, Page H3172):
  Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 informs the Congress that the primary authority to set election law and to administer federal elections rests with the States and not with the Congress. Article I, Section 5, Clause 1 Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: To establish certain requirements with respect to the inclusion of a photograph or digital image of the likeness of an individual who is eligible to vote in a District of Columbia election in the poll book which contains the name of the individuals who are eligible to vote in the District of Columbia election, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 6, 2023 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4487, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4487

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2fa1918381cd42e32ab8cd971d72da72f3a8d5d559c53d96256e3e75c4561bad

  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.

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