To amend the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to provide that recipients of crime victim assistance grants shall prioritize programs that provide assistance to victims of firearm violence or the family members of victims of homicide, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7533.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. ESCOBAR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 65, April 18, 2022, Page H4448):
  THE U.S. CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I, SECTION 8: POWERS OF CONGRESS CLAUSE 18 The Congress shall have power To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 18, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  335 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7533, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/7533

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 25, 2023

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  817c5ee85e7764e222c72403570ea66325592b171e653885e0d0abd828c17056

  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 August 25, 2023). Not every bill gets one.

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