Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2021

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1446.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CLYBURN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 38, March 1, 2021, Page H882):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 1, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1446, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1446

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  50b54da7eb4847b98bc02c3f65ebfc97724e2f09fd524c78669ba34e3ca183de

  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 May 28, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1446, last updated May 28, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.