Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 842.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 21, February 4, 2021, Page H388):
  Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 4, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  62 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 842, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/842

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  604b70998531b1907c338b26d37b29c5637126631112eac7ecc23a961336691c

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 842, last updated December 5, 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.