SEAS Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9440.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MORAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 135, August 30, 2024, Page H5022):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 8, The single subject of this legislation is: ``To require a strategy to increase United States interagency cooperation with partner African countries to counter illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, and for other purposes.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 30, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  262 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9440, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9440

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b0ed9e7f4345cf12d4bba41d113e69c7e377e417ab5beda809cbe4c192807b12

  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 24, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9440, last updated December 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.