Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) Certification Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1103.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1103, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) Certification Act” on December 11, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on November 29, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 11, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59811

  CBO publication date

  December 11, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1103, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1103

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 9, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  247467b728338ff9c9b8f1c0eb90b949c5f3d957a200c61ea960686922fda137

• 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.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 33, February 17, 2023, Page H856):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Foreign Affairs
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 17, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  102 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1103, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1103

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 9, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  247467b728338ff9c9b8f1c0eb90b949c5f3d957a200c61ea960686922fda137

  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 committee report (as of January 9, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1103, last updated January 9, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.