To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to the city of Vancouver, Washington, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 716.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 716, a bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain federal land to the city of Vancouver, Washington, and for other purposes” on April 8, 2013. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on March 20, 2013”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 8, 2013 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44066

  CBO publication date

  April 8, 2013

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 716, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/716

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d31ed6fe0a7fb97f7df1717e3467b57158a3053bf34c43ede9b5416bde59c94b

• 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 Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H549):
  Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  325 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 716, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/716

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d31ed6fe0a7fb97f7df1717e3467b57158a3053bf34c43ede9b5416bde59c94b

  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. 716, 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.