Autofill Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7435.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FOSTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 33, February 23, 2024, Page H692):
  This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: This bill requires the IRS to establish a program to allow taxpayers to download forms relating to individual income tax returns that are pre-populated with return information reported to the IRS.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 23, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  382 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7435, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7435

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 19, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a0b104fae2352e683d96c0d5da80a69bb024c0dbba6cb26da8635d800aba21d8

  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 December 19, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7435, last updated December 19, 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.