House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced

National Gun Violence Research Act of 2025

H.R. 5622Introduced Sep 30, 2025Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Official title: To provide for a coordinated national research program to examine the nature, causes, consequences, and prevention of violence and unintended injury and death relating to gun ownership, use, and trafficking, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Rep. Valerie Foushee D-NC

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Where it went

IntroducedSep 30, 2025
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Latest action: Sep 30, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Energy and Commerce, 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. 5622.

Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. FOUSHEE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 160, September 30, 2025, Page H4509):
Per Article 1 of the Constitution
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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

13 cosponsors — 13 Democrats

0 of 13 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.

Donald Beyer (D-VA), André Carson (D-IN), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Andrea Salinas (D-OR), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV).

More from the sponsor

Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Valerie Foushee.

Sponsor’s state and district

North Carolina in Congress · NC-4 district

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