FIREARM Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7471.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ISSA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 36, February 28, 2024, Page H738):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: To provide firearm licensees an opportunity to correct statutory and regulatory violations, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 28, 2024 ↗

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  190 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7471, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7471

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  12036cd0c68d8726216781a9ec9e1464240947a1fcc1037ee8d2b807cc204b8e

  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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