House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Secure Background Checks Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a person who fails to meet age and residential requirements from shipping, transporting, possessing, or receiving firearms and ammunition, to increase the penalties for transfer of a firearm to any person who is under indictment, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Joe Neguse D-COWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 3, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 3, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2648.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEGUSE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 60, April 3, 2025, Page H1419):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2648, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2648
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 1, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 2, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of October 1, 2026). 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
4 cosponsors — 4 Democrats
0 of 4 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Robin Kelly (D-IL).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joe Neguse.
- H.R. 3922 (119th) Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
- H.R. 1729 (119th) Bolts Ditch Act
- H.Res. 22 (119th) Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.
- H.R. 744 (119th) Disaster Management Costs Modernization Act
- H.R. 3924 (119th) Wildfire Risk Evaluation Act
- H.J.Res. 122 (119th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate…
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 2, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.