Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3289.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3289, Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019” on October 9, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on September 25, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 9, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55712

  CBO publication date

  October 9, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3289, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3289

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6e91dd6f7c87eaec1b66373ccee22a3ccada2a2e2f775bbbb4574e3ebf2dafc1

• 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. SMITH of New Jersey, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 99, June 13, 2019, Page H4697):
  Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 13, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  42 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3289, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3289

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6e91dd6f7c87eaec1b66373ccee22a3ccada2a2e2f775bbbb4574e3ebf2dafc1

  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 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3289, last updated January 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.