PAW Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 4205.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 4205, PAW Act” on July 28, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on May 25, 2022”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 28, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58333

  CBO publication date

  July 28, 2022

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 4205, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/s/4205

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0ceb9cc4230a43f0dcce182449a098237292a147a233d3b552e1c772db045f64

• 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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 117-140 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on August 3, 2022.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported August 3, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/117/SRPT/140

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 4205, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/s/4205

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0ceb9cc4230a43f0dcce182449a098237292a147a233d3b552e1c772db045f64

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 4205, 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.