Modernizing Wildfire Safety and Prevention Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8656.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HARDER of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 97, June 7, 2024, Page H3680):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To provide for the implementation of certain recommendations from the Report of the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 7, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  219 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8656, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8656

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  65b6a11640813e197dccc71c3b66b364ebabb2f10f87ddd4dfb986d45891fb73

  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. 8656, 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.