Sanction Sea Pirates Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8934.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 8934, Sanction Sea Pirates Act of 2024” on August 14, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 11, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 14, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60632

  CBO publication date

  August 14, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8934, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8934

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  90c1520ce294488930b9ce15199b738f07bbf327a76a19ee46d02942a5315484

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 111, July 5, 2024, Page H4457):
  Art 1 Sec 1 The single subject of this legislation is: Imposing Sanctions on people engaging in piratesy
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 5, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  104 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8934, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8934

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  90c1520ce294488930b9ce15199b738f07bbf327a76a19ee46d02942a5315484

  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 committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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