Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8923.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 110, July 2, 2024, Page H4452):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: To establish an Animal Cruelty Crimes Section within the Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 2, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  223 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8923, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8923

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 5, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  95bdbe5856bce9a0e101b935ee63bfee696ffe554fd92ec40f40f088c33982c0

  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 October 5, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8923, last updated October 5, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.