Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7450.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. STEFANIK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 33, February 23, 2024, Page H693):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit payment card networks and covered entities from requiring the use of or assigning merchant category codes that distinguish a firearms retailer from general-merchandise retailer or sporting-goods retailer
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 23, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  289 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7450, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7450

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 22, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0ddd5d5140f46c554d51375f66767748325202b87ca6c5182d4ee01db8f27231

  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 November 22, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7450, last updated November 22, 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.