House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
GOSAFE Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 3, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 3, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8600.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. McBATH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 94, June 3, 2024, Page H3582):This bill is enacted pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: To amend title 18, United States Code, to restrict the possession of certain firearms, and for other purposes.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 3, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 242 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8600, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8600
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 19, 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 December 19, 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
44 cosponsors — 44 Democrats
0 of 44 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Gabe Amo (D-RI), Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Becca Balint (D-VT), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Yadira Caraveo (D-CO), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Danny Davis (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and 14 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lucy McBath.
- H.R. 5646 (118th) Stop Campus Hazing Act
- H.R. 3019 (118th) Federal Prison Oversight Act
- H.R. 3018 (118th) Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2023
- H.R. 3332 (118th) Extending WIC for New Moms Act
- H.R. 2604 (118th) Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2023
- H.R. 3151 (118th) WIC Healthy Beginnings Act of 2023
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.