House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Vote by Mail Tracking Act
Official title: To amend title 39, United States Code, to require mail-in ballots to use the Postal Service barcode service, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Kweisi Mfume D-MDWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 27, 2026
- Committee actionFeb 4, 2026
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 4, 2026 — Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 43 - 1.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7265.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7265, Vote by Mail Tracking Act of 2026” on March 20, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on February 4, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 20, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62248
- CBO publication date
- March 20, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7265, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7265
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MFUME, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 19, January 27, 2026, Page H1916):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 27, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7265, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7265
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b436c0dc7ecdb50ad1a1ae6b6bc9148039c1ad7adf5ec3874c9bcc78b8035623
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of September 19, 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
33 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 29 Democrats
4 of 33 cosponsors (12%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Don Bacon (R-NE), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Angie Craig (D-MN), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), George Latimer (D-NY), Summer Lee (D-PA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), April McClain Delaney (D-MD), Dave Min (D-CA), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Robert Scott (D-VA), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Emilia Sykes (D-OH), Shri Thanedar (D-MI) and 3 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Kweisi Mfume.
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- H.R. 7740 (119th) African American History Act of 2026
- H.R. 7549 (119th) National Council on African American History and Culture Act of 2026
- H.R. 3498 (119th) Henrietta Lacks Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.Res. 807 (119th) Of inquiry requesting the President to transmit certain information to the House of Representatives referring to the firings, dismissal…
- H.R. 1718 (119th) Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2025
Related bills
- H.R. 7300 (119th) Make Elections Great Again ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.