To amend the America's Conservation Enhancement Act to reauthorize the Chesapeake WILD program.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7522.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 39, March 5, 2024, Page H822):
  This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: Chesapeake Bay Watershed Conservation
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 5, 2024 ↗

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  215 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7522, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7522

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 11, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7e6659a4ad7451fa579e6a71632fbdd63ad97c4da320a4f0ce8c0222ea38d005

  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 June 11, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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