Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4231.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. WATERS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 108, June 21, 2023, Page H3072):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 3 provides Congress with the power to ``regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.'' The single subject of this legislation is: Provides downpayment assistance to first-generation homebuyers to address multigeneratiorial inequities in access to homeownership and to narrow and ultimately close the racial homeownership gap in the United States, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 21, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

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  452 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4231, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4231

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 9, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f56ed177195022de89d198fb6d924965b4949eb5f89ee7ee26d8851bc34f1220

  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 January 9, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4231, last updated January 9, 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.