No Passport Fees for Heroes’ Families Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2847.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2847, No Passport Fees for Heroes’ Families Act” on April 15, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 4, 2020”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 15, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56333

  CBO publication date

  April 15, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2847, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2847

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d6fb5cc054d8713504ba846957a103724b6aa050d3ed1573a76af6fb80111216

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MITCHELL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 84, May 20, 2019, Page H4010):
  Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 20, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  61 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2847, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2847

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d6fb5cc054d8713504ba846957a103724b6aa050d3ed1573a76af6fb80111216

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

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2847, last updated January 3, 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.