Tiffany Joslyn Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 494.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. JACKSON LEE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 6, January 11, 2019, Page H519):
  This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article II, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 11, 2019 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  135 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 494, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/494

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  897532a59927bf6a43709784bb5cec3c17468f5353ef37e5fe11572ed3f24b07

  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 August 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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