California Seamounts and Ridges National Marine Conservation Area Designation and Management Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5797.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FARR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 114, July 14, 2016, Page H5012):
  Art. 1, Sec. 8, Clause 8 of U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 14, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  45 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5797, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5797

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d4f6297001942f0335e809e293effeedbe8d07ee91a8862785bf520f0e05497c

  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 August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5797, last updated August 12, 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.