Empowering Financial Institutions to Fight Human Trafficking Act of 2018

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6729.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6729, Empowering Financial Institutions to Fight Human Trafficking Act of 2018” on September 28, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As passed by the House of Representatives on September 26, 2018”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 28, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54522

  CBO publication date

  September 28, 2018

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6729, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/6729

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2c07fcf2be6f576c2bba48f56102752f9a6067fb47d8670c3adbbd3622268070

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 115-981 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on September 26, 2018.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 26, 2018 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/115/HRPT/981

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6729, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/6729

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2c07fcf2be6f576c2bba48f56102752f9a6067fb47d8670c3adbbd3622268070

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. WAGNER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 148, September 6, 2018, Page H7920):
  Article I, section 8, clause 1 (relating to the general Welfare of the United States); Article I, section 8, clause 3 (relating to regulating Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes); and Amendment XIII (relating to slavery and involuntary servitude, which authorizes Congress to make laws enforcing the extension of civil rights and universal freedom to victims of slavery) ____________________
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 6, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  443 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6729, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/6729

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2c07fcf2be6f576c2bba48f56102752f9a6067fb47d8670c3adbbd3622268070

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

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