House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Assault Weapons Excise Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedAug 4, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 4, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5135.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BEYER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 133, August 4, 2023, Page H4165):Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Gun violence preventionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 4, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 87 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5135, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5135
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 24, 2024
- 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 July 24, 2024). 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
26 cosponsors — 26 Democrats
0 of 26 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), André Carson (D-IN), Sean Casten (D-IL), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Grace Meng (D-NY), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Katie Porter (D-CA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), C. Ruppersberger (D-MD), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Lori Trahan (D-MA), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Frederica Wilson (D-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Donald Beyer.
- H.R. 5399 (118th) Humane Cosmetics Act of 2023
- H.R. 1277 (118th) Military Spouse Hiring Act
- H.J.Res. 76 (118th) Redesignating the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery as the "Arlington House National Historic Site".
- H.R. 3470 (118th) Keeping All Students Safe Act
- H.R. 856 (118th) Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act
- H.Res. 881 (118th) Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
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.