AUKUS Submarine Transfer Authorization Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4619.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4619, AUKUS Submarine Transfer Authorization Act” on November 3, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 26, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 3, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59668

  CBO publication date

  November 3, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4619, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4619

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4230003f04c2d0f5a546155c71dc59efee92d4fe87feb6fd9d79c44404d83903

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HUIZENGA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 120, July 13, 2023, Page H3576):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 14. The single subject of this legislation is: Sale of Virginia Class submarines to Australia.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 13, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  123 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4619, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4619

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4230003f04c2d0f5a546155c71dc59efee92d4fe87feb6fd9d79c44404d83903

  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 committee report (as of June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4619, last updated June 6, 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.