House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Ghost Guns and Untraceable Firearms Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 27, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 27, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4992.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ESPAILLAT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 130, July 27, 2023, Page H4144):Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: FirearmsSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 27, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 106 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4992, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4992
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
27 cosponsors — 27 Democrats
0 of 27 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Julia Brownley (D-CA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Glenn Ivey (D-MD), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Scott Peters (D-CA), Katie Porter (D-CA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Bradley Schneider (D-IL), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Nikema Williams (D-GA), Frederica Wilson (D-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Adriano Espaillat.
- H.R. 6852 (118th) Holcombe Rucker Park National Commemorative Site Act
- H.R. 6751 (118th) Roberto Clemente Commemorative Coin Act
- H.Res. 28 (118th) Condemning the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and committing to advancing reproductive…
- H.Res. 348 (118th) Declaring gun violence a public health crisis.
- H.R. 1124 (118th) Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2023
- H.R. 3050 (118th) Fair Adjudications for Immigrants Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.