To designate the Federal building located at 300 E. 3rd Street in North Platte, Nebraska, as the "Virginia Smith Federal Building", and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6984.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6984, a bill to designate the Federal building located at 300 E. 3rd Street in North Platte, Nebraska, as the “Virginia Smith Federal Building,” and for other purposes” on November 21, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on September 18, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 21, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61026

  CBO publication date

  November 21, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6984, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6984

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 118-815 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on December 5, 2024.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 5, 2024 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/118/HRPT/815

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6984, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6984

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 6, January 11, 2024, Page H108):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Building naming
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 11, 2024 ↗

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  79 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6984, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6984

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b1da09098b32594e77ec601870acfd1a9103e7756c62e847101521c56b2500c5

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