To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit trading ahead by market makers, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4619.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4619, a bill to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit trading ahead by market makers, and for other purposes” on November 17, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported on July 29, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 17, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58799

  CBO publication date

  November 17, 2022

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4619, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/4619

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8130b2f6a92a03f40c7574f8e28f40eb75466ed237d65b8cf2024f31dad589da

• 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 Mr. GREEN of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 129, July 22, 2021, Pages H3844-H3845):
  Taxing and Spending Clause: Article 1, Section 8, clause 1--provides Congress authority to, inter alia, enact spending legislation. Commerce Clause: Article 1, Section 8, clause 3--provides Congress with the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the states, including the use of the channels of interstate commerce, the instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or persons or things in interstate commerce. Necessary and Proper Clause: Article 1, Section 8, clause 18--allows Congress the power to make all laws that are necessary and proper for executing its enumerated powers and all other powers vested by the Constitution in the U.S. Government.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 22, 2021 ↗

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  Statement length

  669 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4619, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/4619

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8130b2f6a92a03f40c7574f8e28f40eb75466ed237d65b8cf2024f31dad589da

  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 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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