Rails to Trails Landowner Rights Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9604.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 143, September 16, 2024, Page H5239):
  Amendment 5 to the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Protecting the rights of landowners in the transfer of abandoned railroad right-of-way.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 16, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  162 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9604, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9604

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 3, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f673d9aea4574fd3cde989b97f0020955dc5ae43e2268e2b852b334b2848b3e1

  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 3, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9604, last updated October 3, 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.