Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1287.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FEENSTRA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 39, March 1, 2023, Page H1051):
  Article 1 Section 8 Clause 4 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To establish mandatory minimum purchase volumes for packers through ``approved pricing mechanisms'', establish a maximum penalty for covered packers of $90,000 for mandatory minimum violations, and to create a publicly available library of marketing contracts.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 1, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  352 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1287, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1287

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 9, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dba677ab46fa75cbef8f31d8c150ae6e79977528abbfaa270df035a1ed7e9da0

  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 9, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1287, 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.