Plug Offshore Wells Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9168.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. PORTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 121, July 25, 2024, Page H4950):
  Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Secretary of the Interior to annually submit to Congress, and make publicly available on a website, a report on decommissioning offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, and pipelines.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 25, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  285 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9168, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9168

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  90d600fe69a5c692f075355afed34172a32be0a370200245c096adb954fc61a7

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

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9168, last updated December 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.