BRIGHT Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 442.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 442, BRIGHT Act” on February 10, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on November 3, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 10, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57836

  CBO publication date

  February 10, 2022

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 442, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/s/442

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  497e624be85ddfca90e934cda28f76894d4b6d7bb4e8f50b963a982566c7f917

• 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. 117-80 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on February 16, 2022.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported February 16, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/117/SRPT/80

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 442, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/s/442

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  497e624be85ddfca90e934cda28f76894d4b6d7bb4e8f50b963a982566c7f917

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