VENUE Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9582.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SELF, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 142, September 12, 2024, Page H5231):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Allow criminal defendants to transfer federal court venues.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 12, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  123 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9582, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9582

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 17, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ff61f008f306aac69d815e653dae46376fb8cf200fc754e74492289a6c9a10ce

  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 October 17, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9582, last updated October 17, 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.