H.R. 2462 — Black Vulture Relief Act

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Black Vulture Relief Act — would clear the House (91%, 26 cosponsors) but only 5% to ever get the vote.

reaches a floor vote

>99%

passes if voted (stage model)

11%

survives downstream

<1%

becomes law

The gap: on the floor this would pass — 91% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 5% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 284 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 202–411 (quartiles 214–373). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

By floor procedure

No vote is scheduled, so the headline marginalizes over how the House would take it up; the branches:

Procedure	Likelihood	Projected yea	Passes
passage	38%	255 [187–390]	84%
suspension	62%	302 [208–414]	95%

Receipts

Sponsor: John W. Rose (R). Latest action (2025-10-03): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 286.
Full record: Congress.gov.

Forecast run predict-20260606T193507Z · models member-vote-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 + passage-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 · conditional whip forecasts for the Senate run at moderate confidence (why).