House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Right to Vote Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 25, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 10, 2024 — Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4561)
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8825.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. LEE of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 106, June 25, 2024, Page H4152):Art. I, Sec. 8 The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would codify and enforce a persons' right to vote in federal elections.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 25, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 139 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8825, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8825
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 20, 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 20, 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
40 cosponsors — 40 Democrats
0 of 40 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Cori Bush (D-MO), Greg Casar (D-TX), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Jesús García (D-IL), Al Green (D-TX), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Scott Peters (D-CA), Katie Porter (D-CA), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Andrea Salinas (D-OR) and 10 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Summer Lee.
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- H.R. 9998 (118th) Rail Bridge Safety and Transparency Act
Related bills
- H.R. 9437 (119th) Right to Vote ActCross-Congress related bill
- S. 4884 (119th) Right to Vote ActCross-Congress related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.