Scientific Integrity Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1709.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1709, Scientific Integrity Act” on November 7, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on October 17, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 7, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55825

  CBO publication date

  November 7, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1709, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1709

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6dd571d66abbaa9feaf2f23c749e3e2c6ace7471fb9468328422bf35a9dc42b9

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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. TONKO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 45, March 13, 2019, Page H2717):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause I Provides Congress with the power to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises'' in order to ``provide for the . . . general Welfare of the United States.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 13, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  197 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1709, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1709

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6dd571d66abbaa9feaf2f23c749e3e2c6ace7471fb9468328422bf35a9dc42b9

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1709, 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.