Put Trafficking Victims First Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 507.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. BASS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 6, January 11, 2019, Page H519):
  Article 1, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, providing--All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 11, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  218 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 507, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/507

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  36876dc5c3fe241543fa9379f415dca23dc4653379d5198b464e82697e2258eb

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 507, last updated August 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.