To provide for the appointment of members of the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance to replace members whose terms expire during 2017, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1228.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HARPER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 34, February 27, 2017, Page H1355):
  Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which grants Congress the authority to make laws governing the commerce among several states, including employment discrimination laws.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 27, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  182 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1228, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1228

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 19, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  773eba3cd8c20ed30e542ca4362b6cf67ef2ac22173c5dfa34d85ae366dbbe56

  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 December 19, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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