Beef Origin Labeling Accountability Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5215.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 136, August 15, 2023, Page H4187):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: To require the United States Trade Representative, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to determine a means of reinstating mandatory country of origin labeling for beef that is in compliance with all applicable rules of the World Trade Organization, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 15, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  387 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5215, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5215

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 20, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  16f2517b3c676b659a5a24878dab681e7ebfec1b20b105ba5ff26ef6c216118d

  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 December 20, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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