Reforming Disaster Recovery Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5940.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GREEN of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 167, October 12, 2023, Page H5008):
  Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8, Cl. 18). The single subject of this legislation is: To establish a community disaster assistance fund for housing and community development and to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide, from the fund, assistance through a community development block grant disaster recovery program, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 12, 2023 ↗

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  381 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5940, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5940

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e80a59d08ef240bb6487ce83d697f0efdc493e6f761f51f225ec08dfe5f6118a

  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 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5940, last updated December 11, 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.