Sara’s Law and the Preventing Unfair Sentencing Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4724.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WESTERMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 123, July 18, 2023, Page H3701):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: To authorize the court to depart from a statutory minimum in the case of a juvenile offender, youthful victim offender, and certain other minors, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 18, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  279 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4724, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4724

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 30, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8793a6043bf71ca6b826fc74dd60c23213f45b20c4e65ccf5faf1cbb8998a8df

  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 October 30, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4724, last updated October 30, 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.