Securities and Exchange Commission Overpayment Credit Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1257.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1257, Securities and Exchange Commission Overpayment Credit Act” on April 5, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on March 9, 2017”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 5, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52575

  CBO publication date

  April 5, 2017

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1257, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1257

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d08316ed7a53e4fdd1e6ff4e3f6ea1db6acafdf85a02d7c851033b1ed003be28

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 115-275 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on August 15, 2017.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported August 15, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/115/HRPT/275

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1257, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1257

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d08316ed7a53e4fdd1e6ff4e3f6ea1db6acafdf85a02d7c851033b1ed003be28

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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. MEEKS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 35, February 28, 2017, Page H1393):
  The necessary and proper clause of the Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18)
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 28, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  85 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1257, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1257

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d08316ed7a53e4fdd1e6ff4e3f6ea1db6acafdf85a02d7c851033b1ed003be28

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

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1257, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.