Justice Served Act of 2018

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4854.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTER of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 12, January 19, 2018, Page H583):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 19, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  349 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4854, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/4854

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7f4695d4127e62dd0e2fdfed7b0668fb11b501721e2a257ebc80a2a49ac9c945

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4854, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.