Modern Firearm Safety Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9388.

• 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. 132, August 20, 2024, Page H5001):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution of the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit the imposition of requirements that handguns have certain features generally absent from firearms in common use, and to restore the civil and natural rights of Americans in States hostile to liberty, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 20, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  352 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9388, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9388

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 17, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a5c8f6e0bc71977d1b4955b1db7c55fe308945fd65aa0043ca63b0eafabdd4f4

  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 October 17, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9388, last updated October 17, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.