Combating Hate Across Campus

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7998.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ESPAILLAT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 64, April 15, 2024, Page H2398):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The Congress shall have Power to . . . provide for the . . . general Welfare of the United States; . . . The single subject of this legislation is: Thsi language would expand reporting requirements in the Clery Act to include information on the victim of a hate crime
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 15, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  298 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7998, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7998

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6b404610a0c28a59a46609782ee6c28efb8bb33857fc00bac145bbe126ca580f

  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 July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7998, last updated July 21, 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.