1HOUSE · MAY 14, 2025
Passed the House
229–193PASSED
R 215–0 D 14–193
On Passage · roll 128 · 11 not voting
House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Passed House
LEOSA Reform Act
Official title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to improve the Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act and provisions relating to the carrying of concealed weapons by law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Don Bacon R-NEWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 21, 2025
- Committee actionMar 25, 2025
- Passed HouseMay 14, 2025 · 229–193
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 15, 2025 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2243.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2243, LEOSA Reform Act” on April 2, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on March 25, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 2, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61293
- CBO publication date
- April 2, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2243, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2243
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 119-81 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on April 28, 2025.Source: Congress.gov, reported April 28, 2025 ↗
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- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/119/HRPT/81
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2243, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2243
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BACON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 52, March 21, 2025, Page H1189):Article I, Section 8, Clause 3Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 21, 2025 ↗
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- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2243, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2243
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Vote results
1 recorded roll-call vote on H.R. 2243. The vote that moved the bill is first.
Yea–nay by party (R = Republicans, D = Democrats, I = independents). Counts for present and not-voting members are shown where there were any. Showing all 1 of 1 recorded votes. Sorted by date; within a chamber by roll-call number.
Cosponsors
18 cosponsors — 17 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 18 cosponsors (6%) are from the other party.
Mark Amodei (R-NV), Earl Carter (R-GA), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Pat Fallon (R-TX), Brad Finstad (R-MN), Michelle Fischbach (R-MN), Charles Fleischmann (R-TN), Mike Flood (R-NE), Mark Green (R-TN), Michael Guest (R-MS), John Rutherford (R-FL), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Thomas Tiffany (R-WI), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Beth Van Duyne (R-TX), Roger Williams (R-TX), Rudy Yakym (R-IN).
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Sponsor’s state and district
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