Ensuring Access to Whistleblower Protections Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9721.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. De La CRUZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 147, September 20, 2024, Page H5562):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would make clear what contract activities mandate the Department of Housing and Urban Development to make best efforts to include in any modification made to a contract into which it has previously entered a contract clause that provides for the same whistleblower protections that are contained in Section 4712 of title 41, United States Code.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 20, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  452 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9721, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9721

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2841b01b70205a1d51b1ce0b329a3352894d97b120e8a28e1a4eae264e6bccf4

  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 February 4, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9721, last updated February 4, 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.