ARMAS Act of 2025
Latest action · Dec 16, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedDec 16, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Cosponsors 32
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 16, 2025 to Oct 6, 2026; 17 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-AZ | Adelita S. Grijalva | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-NY | Daniel S. Goldman | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-IL | Delia C. Ramirez | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-MN | Ilhan Omar | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-PA | Madeleine Dean | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-FL | Maxwell Frost | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-CA | Norma J. Torres | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-IL | Robin L. Kelly | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-RI | Seth Magaziner | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-FL | Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick | Original | Dec 16, 2025 |
| D-TX | Greg Casar | Dec 18, 2025 | |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Jan 6, 2026 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Feb 23, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Lateefah Simon | Feb 23, 2026 | |
| D-FL | Darren Soto | Apr 2, 2026 | |
| D-MA | Jake Auchincloss | Apr 14, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Juan Vargas | Apr 21, 2026 | |
| D-FL | Frederica S. Wilson | Apr 27, 2026 | |
| D-IL | Jonathan L. Jackson | Apr 27, 2026 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Apr 28, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Salud O. Carbajal | May 12, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Maxine Waters | May 14, 2026 | |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Jul 23, 2026 | |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Oct 6, 2026 | |
| D-AZ | Yassamin Ansari | Oct 6, 2026 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Dec 16, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 16, 2025Introduced in House
- Dec 16, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 212, December 16, 2025, page H5942.
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the transfer of regulatory control of certain munitions exports from the Department of Commerce to the Department of State, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- ARMAS Act of 2025
- Americas Regional Monitoring of Arms Sales Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 16, 2025Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
