District of Columbia Courts and Public Defender Service Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1003.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1003, District of Columbia Courts and Public Defender Service Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments Act” on March 16, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on February 14, 2017”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 16, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52507

  CBO publication date

  March 16, 2017

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1003, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1003

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 115-82 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on April 6, 2017.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 6, 2017 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/115/HRPT/82

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1003, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1003

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 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 Ms. NORTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 25, February 13, 2017, Page H1126):
  Clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 13, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  56 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1003, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1003

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dbed7b2a531d3eed96fdd9412212483d798a8ce935ab0b068665a8ca6c21c4b2

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

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