House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Gun Safety Incentive Act
Official title: To make unlawful the sale of any firearm by a licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer without a written notice promoting safe storage and a safe storage device, to create and disseminate best practices regarding safe firearm storage, to create a grant program for the distribution of safe storage devices, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for a credit against tax for sales at retail of safe firearm storage devices, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. André Carson D-INWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 17, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 17, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4487.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARSON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 123, July 17, 2025, Page H3476):Clause 18 of section 8 of Article I of the Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 17, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 56 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4487, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4487
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 16, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 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 16, 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
34 cosponsors — 34 Democrats
0 of 34 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Ed Case (D-HI), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Angie Craig (D-MN), Danny Davis (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Al Green (D-TX), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Johnny Olszewski (D-MD), Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Adam Smith (D-WA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Jill Tokuda (D-HI) and 4 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
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