Science and Technology Agreement Enhanced Congressional Notification Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5245.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5245, Science and Technology Agreement Enhanced Congressional Notification Act of 2024” on April 15, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 21, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 15, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60210

  CBO publication date

  April 15, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5245, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5245

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  72432a82e76968c93b0e037897ac7e452aebd7e31eee58579fa0b75fc605441e

• 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. BARR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 138, August 22, 2023, Page H4197):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require congressional notification prior to entering into, renewing, or extending a science and technology agreement with the People's Republic of China.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 22, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  313 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5245, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5245

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  72432a82e76968c93b0e037897ac7e452aebd7e31eee58579fa0b75fc605441e

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5245, last updated December 5, 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.