To allow Foreign Service and other executive agency employees to designate beneficiaries of their death benefits.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5206.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5206, a bill to allow Foreign Service and other executive agency employees to designate beneficiaries of their death benefits” on December 2, 2014. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on November 20, 2014”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 2, 2014 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49812

  CBO publication date

  December 2, 2014

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5206, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/5206

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5451b55e8f5b2b384511465bc35b2b9898b018eea023c99864a528654e9f9913

• 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.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GRAYSON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H6859):
  Article I, Clause 8 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  61 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5206, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/5206

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5451b55e8f5b2b384511465bc35b2b9898b018eea023c99864a528654e9f9913

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5206, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 23, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.