Fight Book Bans Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6592.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FROST, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 200, December 5, 2023, Page H6144):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 and 18 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To authorize the Secretary of Education to provide grants to local educational agencies to cover the costs of challenges to determinations not to discontinue the use of specific instructional materials, or the availability of specific school library materials, in public elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 5, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  434 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6592, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6592

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9c604a466ca37130b16108a1564ff9d69f84b616eacd75a5276ac92ad3092e36

  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. 6592, 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.