Water Rights Protection Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7544.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. MALOY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 39, March 5, 2024, Page H823):
  Article I, Section I The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use agreement on the transfer of any water right to the United States by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 5, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  284 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7544, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7544

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d780971c0ad7b84041227c3b7666d7a95b5a94e7b82f8ccc203bc905169856a2

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7544, last updated December 5, 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.