To amend the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia" to clarify the rules of the District of Columbia regarding human occupancy of penthouses above the top story of the building upon which the penthouse is placed.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4192.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4192, a bill to amend the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia" to clarify the rules of the District of Columbia regarding human occupancy of penthouses above the top story of the building” on March 21, 2014. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 12, 2014”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 21, 2014 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45203

  CBO publication date

  March 21, 2014

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4192, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/4192

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2c87b02d19dab5075b94139bc45b8894f03d954ee7ffb6d71cc219cbb29ba076

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 113-418 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on April 28, 2014.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 28, 2014 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/113/HRPT/418

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4192, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/4192

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2c87b02d19dab5075b94139bc45b8894f03d954ee7ffb6d71cc219cbb29ba076

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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. ISSA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H2301):
  Clause 17 of section 8 of Article I of the Constitution To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

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  133 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4192, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/4192

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2c87b02d19dab5075b94139bc45b8894f03d954ee7ffb6d71cc219cbb29ba076

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