STOCK Act 2.0

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6842.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. PORTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 207, December 15, 2023, Page H6993):
  Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To amend chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, and the STOCK Act to require certain senior officials to report payments received from the Federal Government, to improve the filing and disclosure of financial disclosures by Members of Congress, congressional staff, very senior employees, and others, and to ban stock trading for certain senior Government officials, and for
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 15, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  465 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6842, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6842

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 9, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6a3784ad5b4a21d6c29a324da06cff9a47528036723d28813a601741035f3ca7

  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 January 9, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6842, last updated January 9, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.