KAMALA Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9617.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BIGGS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 144, September 17, 2024, Page H5318):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: The single subject of this bill is to prohibit grants under Section 106 of the Housing and Community Development Act from being used to assist persons who are neither a national of the United States nor lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 17, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  309 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9617, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9617

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 16, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b8d2230c3b33b5000a181aed81c6c1ce38e55af592352737cd5d7c2cac8bd58b

  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 16, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9617, last updated December 16, 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.