Defending Students’ Civil Rights Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5328.

• 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):
  14th Amendment to the Constitution Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: that Critical Race Theory violates the Civil Rights Act because it is discriminatory
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 1, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  202 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5328, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5328

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  380296f873aa48e655432a0f1c5c4e2707c5df099267dba4e99f8c09bfcf95c1

  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 24, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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