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H.R. 38 — Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025

4%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act — on the calendar, quiet for 246 days; 37% to reach the floor, 4% to become law.

37%
reaches a floor vote
×
98%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
10%
survives downstream
=
4%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 94% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 37% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 292 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 207–413 (quartiles 216–385). 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:

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
passage38% 258 [201–385] 88%
suspension62% 312 [210–415] 97%

Receipts

Sponsor: Richard Hudson (R). Latest action (2025-10-03): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 289.
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).