Smart Sentencing Adjustments Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2931.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARDENAS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 71, April 27, 2023, Page H2086):
  Article 1, Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. The single subject of this legislation is: To provide incentives for States to implement policy changes to reduce prison populations.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 27, 2023 ↗

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  307 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2931, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2931

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1571c2a96796c33617273f164e04e78ee2865b4fbe8847ba43655852dbfa147e

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2931, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.