Preventing Child Trafficking Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7824.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. OWENS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 52, March 26, 2024, Page H2121):
  Section 8 of Article I or the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Office for Victims of Crime of the Department of Justice to implement anti-trafficking recommendations of the Government Accountability Office.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 26, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  243 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7824, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7824

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e9020c7785ade72dbbc0a5bd76694c4760f094a9385e7dd6268a81e98701c7ab

  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. 7824, 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.