Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3813.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3813, Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act” on December 13, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on November 30, 2017”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 13, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53404

  CBO publication date

  December 13, 2017

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3813, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3813

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  97cb8272aec0add6c63c153897a2901656cee684bb03111653316fb1077ab123

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 115-467 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on December 18, 2017.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 18, 2017 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/115/HRPT/467

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3813, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3813

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  97cb8272aec0add6c63c153897a2901656cee684bb03111653316fb1077ab123

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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. ESTY of Connecticut, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 152, September 21, 2017, Page H7434):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 21, 2017 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  31 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3813, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3813

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  97cb8272aec0add6c63c153897a2901656cee684bb03111653316fb1077ab123

  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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