Stopping Traffickers and Their Accomplices Act of 2022

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6536.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BUDD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 20, February 1, 2022, Page H331):
  Amendment XIII states ``Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.'' Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article I grants that grants that Congress shall ``regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 1, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  487 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6536, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/6536

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ada3c3872e673e27a94ef82c2af25ee7e3dc10a5704af627f5d23995c6b0b28a

  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. 6536, 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.