No Bailouts for Campus Criminals Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8242.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WILLIAMS of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 76, May 2, 2024, Page H2836):
  Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: To establish that an individual who is convicted of any offense under any Federal or State law related to the individual' s conduct at and during the course of a protest that occurs at an institution of higher education shall be ineligible for forgiveness, cancellation, waiver, or modification of certain Federal student loans.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 2, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  474 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8242, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8242

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7f2f2023aa5ecf6ef13f270b7664ceb9c1daff323bc967b7387084f2aa18f536

  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. 8242, 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.