POLE Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10524.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. D'ESPOSITO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 189, December 19, 2024, Page H7391):
  Article 1, Sectle 8 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit the use of Federal funds for the administration of elections for Federal, State, or local office in States which do not have in effect laws to permit units of local government to hold elections for local office in odd-numbered years, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 19, 2024 ↗

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  409 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 10524, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/10524

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 26, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ab0b0879577a39e77241a98b25122f59b8354f3ea843c36684c119915d6488ff

  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 August 26, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 10524, last updated August 26, 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.