Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 527.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 527, Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2015” on February 3, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on January 27, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 3, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49928

  CBO publication date

  February 3, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 527, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/527

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-12 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on February 2, 2015.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported February 2, 2015 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/12

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 527, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/527

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CHABOT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 12, January 26, 2015, Pages H582-H583):
  Article I, Section 1, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, in that the legislation concerns the exercise of legislative powers generally granted to Congress by that section, including the exercise of those powers when delegated by Congress to the Executive; Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 to 17, and Section 9, Clauses 1 to 2, 4, and 7, of the United States Constitution, in that the legislation concerns the exercise of specific legislative powers granted to Congress by those sections, including the exercise of those powers when delegated by Congress to the Executive; Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution, in that the legislation exercises legislative power…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 26, 2015 ↗

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  Statement length

  1,737 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 527, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/527

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b4214220eb8eadbae5b7dc70724c71f69086c0d50d5d193df2359622a55d3532

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