SHIELD Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7959.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MEUSER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 62, April 11, 2024, Page H2318):
  Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: Make an illegal alien deportable and inadmissible to the United States upon admission or conviction of trespassing.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 11, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  214 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7959, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7959

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  59a03a6feec2f37c8e8d7b7b18b5076488a26b20bc7b16e2aeee6973a7c938ac

  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 May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7959, last updated May 27, 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.