TELL Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 742.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 742, TELL Act” on January 17, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on March 9, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 17, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59896

  CBO publication date

  January 17, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 742, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/742

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7510c30d481464e0ed0a21c05d7f4b9c41eeede948a80eb5f4278cb37b887104

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DUNCAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 22, February 2, 2023, Page H680):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 gives Congress the specific power to regulate commerce with other nations. This bill seeks to regulate one small portion of commerce, namely protecting the data of American citizens from companies who might store that data in China or allow the government of the Chinese Communist Party to have access to that data. The single subject of this legislation is: This legislation empowers the FTC to enforce requirements to disclose if American citizen data is stored or maintained in the People's Republic of China.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 2, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  543 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 742, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/742

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7510c30d481464e0ed0a21c05d7f4b9c41eeede948a80eb5f4278cb37b887104

  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 committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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