Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6596.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 200, December 5, 2023, Pages H6144-H6145):
  U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Judiciary
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 5, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  92 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6596, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6596

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 15, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  92c7b3c571d66f09b8e5d0ebf22c4f59cacef83ad9c1f4311b0af80aa5cb6cc3

  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 January 15, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6596, last updated January 15, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.