To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of establishing the birthplace of James Weldon Johnson in Jacksonville, Florida, as a unit of the National Park System.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5005.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5005, a bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of establishing the birthplace of James Weldon Johnson in Jacksonville, Florida, as a unit of the National Park...” on April 19, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on April 11, 2018”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 19, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53784

  CBO publication date

  April 19, 2018

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5005, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5005

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  67ef944146f8ee29b833c3b8525c49d8cfb22a416e87584bdaa6c4e6c549c30b

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 115-644 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on April 24, 2018.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 24, 2018 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/115/HRPT/644

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5005, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5005

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  67ef944146f8ee29b833c3b8525c49d8cfb22a416e87584bdaa6c4e6c549c30b

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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. LAWSON of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 28, February 13, 2018, Page H1126):
  ``Article 1, Section 8: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 13, 2018 ↗

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  Statement length

  257 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5005, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5005

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  67ef944146f8ee29b833c3b8525c49d8cfb22a416e87584bdaa6c4e6c549c30b

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5005, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.