Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 40.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 40, Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act” on May 18, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on April 14, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 18, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57224

  CBO publication date

  May 18, 2021

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 40, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/40

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8be82a2998f36b09d7ba0b5b0535d506fad20ffb73d7150468ab13374da10fdc

• 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.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. JACKSON LEE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 2, January 4, 2021, Page H52):
  Pursuant to Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Congress shall have the power to enact appropriate laws protecting the civil rights of all Americans.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 4, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  186 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 40, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/40

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8be82a2998f36b09d7ba0b5b0535d506fad20ffb73d7150468ab13374da10fdc

  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 committee report (as of January 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 40, last updated January 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.