Protecting Military Installations from Foreign Espionage Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 917.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 27, February 9, 2023, Page H827):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Restricts Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea from buying U.S. land within 100 miles of a U.S. military installation or 50 miles from a military operation area.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 9, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  224 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 917, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/917

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5b4675f15a00f046ab90c8108eff4a052f097934d2ce8755e18003fcb68c803c

  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, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 917, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.