To amend title 49, United States Code, to require each new electric and hybrid vehicle to be equipped with technology that allows the timely extinguishment of an electric vehicle battery fire, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6948.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LATIMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 3, January 6, 2026, Page H12):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the US Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 6, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  53 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6948, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6948

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 22, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1f492cad4ba45ee1cd8f1a3ac56724a025fa936c66af3286c7d4dce7e324f737

  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 January 22, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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