Grid Modernization Research and Development Act of 2020

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5428.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5428, Grid Modernization Research and Development Act of 2019” on June 1, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on February 12, 2020”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 1, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56379

  CBO publication date

  June 1, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5428, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5428

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• 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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 116-474 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Science, Space, and Technology Committee on August 11, 2020.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported August 11, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/HRPT/474

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5428, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5428

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2db922d4afd966ae731c0d92bc40403dec9467c8d4a6ad0d4ccab41a8aed8ef6

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LAMB, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 200, December 13, 2019, Page H10262):
  Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 13, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  62 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5428, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5428

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2db922d4afd966ae731c0d92bc40403dec9467c8d4a6ad0d4ccab41a8aed8ef6

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

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