District of Columbia Courts and Public Defender Service Employment Non-Discrimination Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4226.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. NORTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 107, June 20, 2023, Pages H2991-H2992):
  clause 17 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would apply the District of Columbia Human Rights Act of 1977 to employees of the local D.C. courts and the D.C. Public Defender Service.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 20, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  246 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4226, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4226

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  335a7e5596f7db982f5c03765c2cbc25c12edc3ec363acb1d3fe0d032eedb461

  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 February 4, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4226, last updated February 4, 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.