Prison to Proprietorship Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8443.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. VELAZQUEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 85, May 16, 2024, Page H3330):
  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: The Prison to Proprietorship Act would direct the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Resource Partners to provide entrepreneurship training to federal prisoners.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 16, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  347 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8443, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8443

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 12, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  748f2deb45fb9bbc02358e562ba8a4d7cd4c6f0012b933d4e49fcefa946e9012

  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 October 12, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8443, last updated October 12, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.