To amend the securities laws to establish certain thresholds for shareholder registration, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1965.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1965, a bill to amend the securities laws to establish certain thresholds for shareholder registration, and for other purposes” on October 31, 2011. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on October 26, 2011”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 31, 2011 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/42694

  CBO publication date

  October 31, 2011

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1965, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/1965

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c64c9afc9bdc2e16f6541c82df3db69f11ac0113c2ccb7c943fc6ca99a07071b

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HIMES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H3410):
  Article 1 Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  19 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1965, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/1965

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c64c9afc9bdc2e16f6541c82df3db69f11ac0113c2ccb7c943fc6ca99a07071b

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1965, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 25, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.