Deafblind DATA Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8859.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTWRIGHT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 108, June 27, 2024, Pages H4410-H4411):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (relating to the power of Congress to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.) The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would require the U.S. Bureau of the Census to use their existing data on individual disabilities from the American Community Survey to create and publish an approximation of the U.S. deafblind population, and to report to Congress on the feasibility of expanding data collection on the deafblind population.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 27, 2024 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8859, 118th Congress

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  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8859

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  93f3171510a7513c5d5f9ac2d21d21907f32d6777b434739f37a89814084d8e7

  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 February 4, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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