To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require information on the national debt to be included on ballots in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9504.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LOPEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 139, September 9, 2024, Page H5098):
  Article 1. Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require information on the national debt to be included on ballots in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 9, 2024 ↗

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  233 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9504, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9504

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 16, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7aeee60dadd9512a002826a83dc38a681fa0f1475ac6585c8b27d4e932c17d23

  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 16, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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