Ban Corporate PACs Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5941.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HARDER of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 167, October 12, 2023, Page H5008):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: The bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to limit the authority of corporations to establish and operate separate segregated funds utilized for political purposes, including the establishment or operation of a political committee, to nonprofit corporations, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 12, 2023 ↗

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  387 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5941, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5941

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  811f0b296064c3e4e16c8cd853c8a5e62d7b1b085d0dad99e3d8dcba259a7842

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5941, last updated December 5, 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.