To amend the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to move the enforcement office to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to increase the civil monetary penalties for failure to follow the processes established by that Act, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6647.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ROKITA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 129, July 31, 2018, Page H7735):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (the Commerce Clause) which grants Congress the power to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among several states and with the Indian Tribes
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 31, 2018 ↗

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  179 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6647, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/6647

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0f36e75d3b2513a14c05adfb341fd26c617f30a5ad699b4a22581453297becc0

  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 January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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