Voter Choice Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8462.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PHILLIPS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 86, May 17, 2024, Page H3357):
  Art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 3 of the Constitution of the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: This legislation would authorize $40,000,000 in funding for states and localities seeking to implement ranked choice voting.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 17, 2024 ↗

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  231 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8462, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8462

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 14, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3399e54f5d6cde00e8f068b43df3297a8671bd9148d1b3ef908490c4e24807c6

  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 November 14, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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