Voluntary Sustainable Apparel Labeling Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8978.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CASTEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 114, July 10, 2024, Page H4588):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a voluntary sustainable apparel labeling program.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 10, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  203 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8978, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8978

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 15, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  81d424fffd76365f23fd576b633e5e0449e78d591d0d8738c4246f2b763e9ad8

  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 August 15, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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