Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 511.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BROWN of Maryland, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 6, January 11, 2019, Page H519):
  Commerce Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8, Cl. 3)
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 11, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  39 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 511, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/511

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b5410f19ac5b7dfb5b2f867eb0e3cca9fe99e4f3fbec6d218759f7840d208479

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

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 511, 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.