Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5266.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BACON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 139, August 25, 2023, Page H4205):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 25, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  279 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5266, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5266

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f9786b16a6ff7bf94aabc6b0f527cd8b12fd455d504abe145ba2b66bc0f5ef7c

  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 June 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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