Coastal Seaweed Farm Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1461.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HUFFMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 44, March 8, 2023, Page H1208):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out a study on coastal seaweed farming, issue regulation relating to such farming, and establish an Indigenous seaweed farming fund, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 8, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

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  345 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1461, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1461

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 16, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e32d97788b02f71db025a004f45608d718635d822dee8f08003edecbf6f2da89

  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 16, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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