CBP Guidance on Personal Belongings Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10237.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. RAMIREZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 173, November 21, 2024, Page H6193):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: This legislation would require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to develop and disseminate guidance for the handling of personal property of individuals who are under arrest, restrained, or confined by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 21, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  389 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 10237, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/10237

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 19, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f3174501ebdc15d76633fdc7af9b5654657c854472c64085f93d0ebfe599dab7

  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 19, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 10237, last updated December 19, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.