Protecting and Securing Florida's Coastline Act of 2018

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4770.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FRANCIS ROONEY of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 7, January 11, 2018, Page H169):
  The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces, as enumerated in Article I, Section 8, Clause 14 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 11, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  240 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4770, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/4770

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  35ec17abe40c95126fa52546c083f878a0afcb9c10e8d544180c5beb99eba182

  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 August 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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