To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to make available to the University of Miami property under the administrative jurisdiction of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Virginia Key, Florida, for use by the University for a Marine Life Science Center.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4027.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4027, A bill to authorize the Secy of Commerce to make available to the university of Miami property under the administrative jurisdiction of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin on Virginia Key, FL, for use by the University for a Mar” on July 30, 2004. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on July 14, 2004</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 30, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/15882

  CBO publication date

  July 30, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4027, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/4027

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a53a7d9153e306185db0009b04f4fd5cc923c58ea437f8ff45eb61572d1d0b03

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4027, A bill to authorize the Secy of Commerce to make available to the university of Miami property under the administrative jurisdiction of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin on Virginia Key, FL, for use by the University for a Mar” on July 30, 2004. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on July 14, 2004”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 30, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/15882

  CBO publication date

  July 30, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4027, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/4027

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a53a7d9153e306185db0009b04f4fd5cc923c58ea437f8ff45eb61572d1d0b03

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 108-665 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on September 8, 2004.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 8, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/108/HRPT/665

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4027, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/4027

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a53a7d9153e306185db0009b04f4fd5cc923c58ea437f8ff45eb61572d1d0b03

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

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