Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplification Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 477.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 477, Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplification Act of 2017” on November 30, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on October 12, 2017”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 30, 2017 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53356

  CBO publication date

  November 30, 2017

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 477, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/477

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 115-431 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on November 30, 2017.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported November 30, 2017 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/115/HRPT/431

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 477, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/477

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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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. HUIZENGA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 8, January 12, 2017, Page H472):
  Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 (``The Congress shall have Power To lay andcollect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of theUnited States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States''), 3 (``To regulate Commercewith foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes''), and 18 (``To make all Laws which shall benecessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in theGovernment of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof).
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 12, 2017 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 477, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/477

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2636dd77dddaa563e9b16232f856885c2ec9fdaa7b6fa5fbdb9de6f2471c2e70

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