To amend section 327 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to clarify that National Urban Search and Rescue Response System task forces may include Federal employees.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 639.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 639, a bill to amend section 327 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to clarify that National Urban Search and Rescue Response System task forces may include Federal employees” on March 13, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on February 27, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 13, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55036

  CBO publication date

  March 13, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 639, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/639

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 116-29 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on April 2, 2019.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 2, 2019 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/HRPT/29

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 639, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/639

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. HARTZLER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 10, January 17, 2019, Page H719):
  Necessary and proper clause, Article 1, Section 8, clause 18 of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 17, 2019 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 639, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/639

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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