To extend the Generalized System of Preferences and to make technical changes to the competitive need limitations provision of the program.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4979.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4979, a bill to extend the Generalized System of Preferences and to make technical changes to the competitive need limitations provision of the program” on February 12, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As posted on docs.house.gov/floor for the week of February 12, 2018, (g:\VHLC\020918\020918.152.xml)”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 12, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53577

  CBO publication date

  February 12, 2018

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4979, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/4979

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  aff9f691a7fa1191e0fb1ee834e14f22f428089d56564513efd12cfdc124ff03

• 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. As as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 25, February 8, 2018, Page H1075):
  U.S. CONST. art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 1 and 3 ``The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States . . .;'' and ``To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes . . . .''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 8, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  345 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4979, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/4979

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  aff9f691a7fa1191e0fb1ee834e14f22f428089d56564513efd12cfdc124ff03

  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 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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