Synthetic Drug Awareness Act of 2018

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 449.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 449, Synthetic Drug Awareness Act of 2018” on June 7, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 9, 2018”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 7, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53971

  CBO publication date

  June 7, 2018

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 449, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/449

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f1266b8ba62d3973193c2ada83d396e0fac86dada297c0dce7aacb896cbcaad0

• 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.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JEFFRIES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 7, January 11, 2017, Page H392):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution(``Congress shall have the power . . . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution . . .all other Powers vested in this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officerthereof).
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 11, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  315 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 449, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/449

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f1266b8ba62d3973193c2ada83d396e0fac86dada297c0dce7aacb896cbcaad0

  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 committee report (as of April 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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