Prevention of Private Information Dissemination Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4294.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4294, Prevention of Private Information Dissemination Act of 2017” on December 7, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on November 15, 2017”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 7, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53385

  CBO publication date

  December 7, 2017

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4294, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/4294

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6678c7353fb250fc13ebf58d0a9419ab012bfbcb99a99a8ac0e551f584750657

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 115-678 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on May 16, 2018.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported May 16, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/115/HRPT/678

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4294, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/4294

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6678c7353fb250fc13ebf58d0a9419ab012bfbcb99a99a8ac0e551f584750657

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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. KUSTOFF of Tennessee, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 182, November 8, 2017, Page H8661):
  The Constitutional Authority on which this bill rests is the explicit power of Congress to regulate in commerce in and among the states, as enumerated in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. Additionally, Article I, Section 7, Clause 2 of the Constitution allows for every bill passed in the House of Representatives and the Senate and signed by the President to be codified into law; and therefore, implicitly allows Congress to repeal any bill that has been passed by both chambers and signed into law by the President.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 8, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  571 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4294, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/4294

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6678c7353fb250fc13ebf58d0a9419ab012bfbcb99a99a8ac0e551f584750657

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