Supporting Law Enforcement Officers’ Ability to Combat Organized Retail Crime Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8477.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. D'ESPOSITO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 88, May 21, 2024, Page H3398):
  Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a curriculum to train State, local, Tribal, territorial, and campus law enforcement agencies to identify, investigate, and report acts of organized retail crime, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 21, 2024 ↗

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  327 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8477, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8477

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 9, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5ce58bb1dc86456a555208581508e781baeb0c503d4643bbcf8aad78df678aa8

  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 9, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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