Coastal Habitat Conservation Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2950.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2950, Coastal Habitat Conservation Act of 2023” on May 30, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on January 17, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 30, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60353

  CBO publication date

  May 30, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2950, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2950

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 118-671 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on September 12, 2024.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 12, 2024 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/118/HRPT/671

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2950, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2950

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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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. HUFFMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 71, April 27, 2023, Page H2087):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, through the Coastal Program of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, to work with willing partners and provide support to efforts to assess, protect, restore, and enhance important coastal landscapes that provide fish and wildlife habitat on which certain Federal trust species depend, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 27, 2023 ↗

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  Statement length

  424 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2950, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2950

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e151c42caebee15f5a972ac4602eab8018f3e7e6b2a984b60b496bd4f15352f9

  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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