Cold Case Modernization Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6688.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RESCHENTHALER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 202, December 7, 2023, Page H6742):
  Article 1 Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To permit grant funds to be used to identify unidentified human remains without regard as to whether the manner of death is determined to be a homicide.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 7, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  215 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6688, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6688

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 9, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e127fc158632293a2a4ea9f57c037d28285a43d29b5372ed531940f929cdb39e

  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 9, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6688, last updated July 9, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.