Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5402.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. DeLAURO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 147, September 12, 2023, Page H4264):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 3 provides Congress with the power to ``regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.'' The single subject of this legislation is: This bill will strengthen fundamental protections that allow workers to get the money they have earned through hard work, and it will crack down on corporations that subject workers to these abuses.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 12, 2023 ↗

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  410 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5402, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5402

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ba05e862bd532b9625828bd46f2294aa63d1079899f54b9b55a971c60755ec5d

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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