Small Business Protection Act of 2020

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9012.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HUIZENGA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 214, December 17, 2020, Page H7259):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3--To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes. Amendment X--Nothing in the Constitution authorizes the Federal government to do anything other than those things enumerated (coin money, enter into treaties, conduct a Census--which are inherently governmental). Thus, under Amendment X, the right to carry out commercial activities is reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 17, 2020 ↗

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  474 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9012, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/9012

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b7fe6cbe0a2fcaddd14752bc8813214ae1f010ab0f5e034188ab65092896344b

  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.

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