To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act and the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to modernize terms relating to minorities.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4238.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4238, an act to amend the Department of Energy Organization Act and the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to modernize terms relating to minorities” on March 24, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As passed by the House of Representatives on February 29, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 24, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51419

  CBO publication date

  March 24, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4238, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4238

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  068314bfb59ca5b086eb03e1c9a35b6a628cd9c6ed6fbd79187ff412c2044623

• 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. MENG, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 180, December 11, 2015, Page H9307):
  Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 11, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  46 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4238, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4238

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  068314bfb59ca5b086eb03e1c9a35b6a628cd9c6ed6fbd79187ff412c2044623

  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. 4238, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.