Fair Access to Legal Counsel Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10403.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SARBANES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 185, December 12, 2024, Page H7142):
  Article I Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Access to Counsel
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 12, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  80 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 10403, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/10403

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 29, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bc209947ca9d79d1bbbb397e0bec404de2ba966d7253d15c6421e2f4056461a5

  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 January 29, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 10403, last updated January 29, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.