SEWER Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9008.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ROBERT GARCIA of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 115, July 11, 2024, Page H4626):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 1; which provides Congress with the power to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises'' in order to ``provide for the . . . general Welfare of the United States.'' The single subject of this legislation is: Public health surveillance of infectious diseases in wastewater
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 11, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  311 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9008, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9008

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  11d748bbda78c6f9e743ae90381720ef605f1a3dc26dd208f2b767c54566bd4d

  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 September 24, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9008, last updated September 24, 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.