Justice for Victims of Open Borders Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3140.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. FOXX, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 78, May 9, 2023, Page H2173):
  Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: ArticleI, Section 8, Clauses 3, 4, and 18. The single subject of this legislation is: Requiring states Attorneys General to give priority to victims of crimes committed by people in the country illegally when distributing federal funding under the Victims of Crime Act of 1984.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 9, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  353 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3140, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3140

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  01f6045bb18a761bf0948fd97f71606c0d1b8d68154d9e9f93fbed823fcc8c9c

  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. 3140, 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.