To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress a report containing an assessment of any physical or cybersecurity incidents to a storage facility or a related facility of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4859.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FALLON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 128, July 25, 2023, Page H3951):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Energy
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 25, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  70 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4859, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4859

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 15, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8f14a8bcaf05403d82b0d7840156d4e4d6b7f6502ec650a20c51df07b7f18f31

  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 15, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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