SAFE Laboratories Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1373.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STEWART, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 41, March 3, 2023, Page H1115):
  Article 1 Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit any head of a Federal agency from providing assistance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other laboratories in certain other foreign nations.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 3, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  221 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1373, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1373

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c9b8356a441da07b9747d68893b7b6354347a1915679c5acf3c61ba6b922ca29

  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 July 24, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1373, last updated July 24, 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.