Mink VIRUS Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3783.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ESPAILLAT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 95, June 1, 2023, Page H2713):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The Congress shall have Power to . . . provide for the . . . general Welfare of the United States; . . . The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would close all Mink farms and pay farmers the fair market price of their farms.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 1, 2023 ↗

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  269 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3783, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3783

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  392fb6c53f915988e61b817063cd97b3ecdb9094fa2aca7e0c773b67fa59af44

  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 September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3783, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.