Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1297.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. DEMINGS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 30, February 15, 2019, Page H2039):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 1 provides Congress with the power to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 15, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  122 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1297, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1297

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e262bbf6d438eb894043b1d283bbdd323e903afdbbc8a4a17d654823e4432e0e

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1297, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.