To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to treat United States Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices as voter registration agencies, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7179.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. TORRES of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 18, January 31, 2024, Page H365):
  According to Article 1: Section 8: Clause 18: of the United States Constitution, seen below, this bill falls within the Constitutional Authority of the United States Congress. Article 1: Section 8: Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in The single subject of this legislation is: election access
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 31, 2024 ↗

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  421 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7179, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7179

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5dae01389ff38141ea2a120939cb5234c39e3dbf1836e08d06abfe332d41fc52

  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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