Emergency Reporting Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7043.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. MATSUI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 10, January 18, 2024, Page H241):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue reports after activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System and to make improvements to network outage reporting, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 18, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  302 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7043, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7043

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 13, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e83568078ba0236b034beb1580001343d23073e15ae82de5af21d61c19a22d84

  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 13, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7043, last updated January 13, 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.