Empowering Local Curriculum Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5326.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOOD of Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 141, September 1, 2023, Page H4218):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 The single subject of this legislation is: Clarifies that recipients of federal funds cannot be required to teach or promote Critical Race Theory in schools.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 1, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  196 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5326, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5326

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4b16cf49f4cc43e51ed7f5285845fa9e8205139b4da1740b9c05d183cf0ef4e0

  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 July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5326, last updated July 21, 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.