Empowering Educators to Prevent Trafficking Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5061.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. DAVIS of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 64, April 26, 2016, Pages H1995-H1996):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: ``The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States'' Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: ``To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 26, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  566 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5061, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5061

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 23, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  59d4a3e221dd4e33a257b0fd34a14ee3482c6b363f04e33751ca9c562e77c304

  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 CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of March 23, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5061, last updated March 23, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.