International Megan's Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 515.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 11, January 22, 2015, Page H534):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, as sex offenders are traveling in foreign commerce.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 22, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  117 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 515, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/515

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dbf74702663c0fefb3b2e18103369bb932824ed54ffce893d46c2968a30ac281

  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 4, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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