To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to implement certain recommendations made by the Comptroller General with respect to disaster recovery, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8456.

• 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 require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to implement certain recommendations made by the Comptroller General with respect to disaster recovery, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 17, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

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  337 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8456, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8456

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 24, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  023693829c2a5a89e583d1a1ae89e33ed928142ee3bdc4987b9921dc5eb9e89a

  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 January 24, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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