Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1797.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1797, Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act” on March 13, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on December 6, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 13, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60088

  CBO publication date

  March 13, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1797, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1797

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  350c85962e8eb3e8d3ae54bd538c6a9ff8b9f1460f51ced4e31e058fc1ea8c6f

• 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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 118-446 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Commerce Committee on April 5, 2024.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 5, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/118/HRPT/446

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1797, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1797

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  350c85962e8eb3e8d3ae54bd538c6a9ff8b9f1460f51ced4e31e058fc1ea8c6f

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TORRES of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 54, March 24, 2023, Page H1439):
  Article 1, Section 8. The single subject of this legislation is: Fire Safety
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 24, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

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  Statement length

  76 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1797, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1797

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  350c85962e8eb3e8d3ae54bd538c6a9ff8b9f1460f51ced4e31e058fc1ea8c6f

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

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