School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4301.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4301, School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act” on October 15, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and Labor on September 18, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 15, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55723

  CBO publication date

  October 15, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4301, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4301

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b6a0d43ddb8debfc4c64140003f7bcaa41b940887c2d2ad7476b1ada40d6bc85

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 116-701 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Education and Workforce Committee on December 29, 2020.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 29, 2020 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/HRPT/701

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4301, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4301

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b6a0d43ddb8debfc4c64140003f7bcaa41b940887c2d2ad7476b1ada40d6bc85

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. GABBARD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 146, September 12, 2019, Page H7706):
  The United States Constitution, including Article 1, Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 12, 2019 ↗

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  Statement length

  63 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4301, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4301

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b6a0d43ddb8debfc4c64140003f7bcaa41b940887c2d2ad7476b1ada40d6bc85

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