Electronic Signature Standards Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3153.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RICE of South Carolina, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 112, June 29, 2017, Page H5378):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 29, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  293 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3153, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3153

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  af0e25a0bdcd7b2ea069c1f6818771eae7a212528c29f00c2904738e55f62908

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3153, 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.