To direct the Secretaries of the military departments concerned to conduct a feasibility study develop a plan to carry out a program to construct facilities of covered military housing and to submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report on such study, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8455.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. JACOBS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 86, May 17, 2024, Page H3357):
  Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Secretaries of the military departments to conduct a feasibility study develop a plan to construct facilities of multi-unit housing with military child development centers.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 17, 2024 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8455, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8455

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

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  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c33da9e727461f65246e0efb449cace3cc0b40de764e07687c53eeeae6c2dea1

  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 June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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