Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 15.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 15, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act” on March 25, 2014. CBO’s description reads “As introduced on October 2, 2013”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 25, 2014 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45206

  CBO publication date

  March 25, 2014

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 15, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/15

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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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. GARCIA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H6174):
  Article 1, Section 8. The Congress shall have Power to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated September 8, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  99 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 15, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/15

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8df3cf1851df3a4ad24d86575262c1c5fbd71d4652d65fdd62e272657cbdb7ff

  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 noteOn 3/26/2014, a motion was filed to discharge the Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Government Reform, the Budget, Science, Space, and Technology, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure from the consideration of H.R.15. A discharge petition requires 218 signatures for further action. (Discharge Petition No. 113-9: text with signatures.)
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated September 8, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  notes

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 15, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/15

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8df3cf1851df3a4ad24d86575262c1c5fbd71d4652d65fdd62e272657cbdb7ff

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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