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H.R. 6536 — Rural Depositories Revitalization Study Act

1%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Rural Depositories Revitalization Study Act — would clear the House (93%) but only 15% to ever get the vote.

15%
reaches a floor vote
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97%
passes if voted (stage model)
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9%
survives downstream
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1%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 93% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 15% 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 206–413 (quartiles 217–379). 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% 274 [193–402] 90%
suspension62% 302 [208–414] 95%

Receipts

Sponsor: Ralph Norman (R). Latest action (2026-02-02): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 404.
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).