Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2218.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2218, Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act” on June 30, 2011. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on June 22, 2011”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 30, 2011 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41552

  CBO publication date

  June 30, 2011

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2218, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2218

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• 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. 112-178 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Education and Workforce Committee on July 22, 2011.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported July 22, 2011 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/112/HRPT/178

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2218, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2218

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e0ecafbf09cd81dac2e231cf171966f5a43ca61072be607a1112ed3ec8b2df43

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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. HUNTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H4328):
  Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated July 21, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  61 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2218, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2218

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e0ecafbf09cd81dac2e231cf171966f5a43ca61072be607a1112ed3ec8b2df43

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

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2218, last updated July 21, 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.