Community Empowerment for Mitigated Properties Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1735.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1735, Community Empowerment for Mitigated Properties Act of 2017” on August 16, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on July 27, 2017”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 16, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53023

  CBO publication date

  August 16, 2017

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1735, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1735

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bfae56e99cefdad58842c7770caf81a76db4c211679ff84468e7593b13199068

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 115-417 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on November 21, 2017.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported November 21, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/115/HRPT/417

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1735, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1735

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bfae56e99cefdad58842c7770caf81a76db4c211679ff84468e7593b13199068

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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. BABIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 53, March 27, 2017, Page H2464):
  Article 1, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 27, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1735, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1735

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bfae56e99cefdad58842c7770caf81a76db4c211679ff84468e7593b13199068

  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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