To provide grants for fire station construction through the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3728.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PASCRELL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 97, June 4, 2021, Page H2693):
  Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 4, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  55 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3728, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/3728

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b9a53d8c5c7f0ddf7f79db51484b2a9db61012efbf9b2a23e72f86c16e87a476

  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. 3728, last updated January 3, 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.