House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Police Officers Protecting Children Act
Official title: To allow certain qualified law enforcement officers and retired law enforcement officers to carry a concealed firearm to protect children in a school zone.
Sponsor: Rep. Randy Weber R-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 30, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 30, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3129.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WEBER of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 72, April 30, 2025, Page H1777):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 30, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3129, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3129
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 3, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 April 3, 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
7 cosponsors — 7 Republicans
0 of 7 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), James Baird (R-IN), Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Abraham Hamadeh (R-AZ), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), August Pfluger (R-TX), Claudia Tenney (R-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Randy Weber.
- H.R. 3474 (119th) Federal Mechanical Insulation Act
- H.R. 6832 (119th) PACK Act
- H.R. 8462 (119th) National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act
- H.R. 2613 (119th) Next Generation Pipelines Research and Development Act
- H.R. 9338 (119th) Pipeline Safety Authorization Act of 2026
- H.Res. 1076 (119th) Recognizing the 10th anniversary of the first export shipment of liquefied natural gas produced in the lower 48 States.
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.