Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9768.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 9768, Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative Act” on November 19, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on September 25, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 19, 2024 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61013

  CBO publication date

  November 19, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9768, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9768

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0bc18c4ab8e97e126238c0abf6ee7a38b25c949b42dad75bbf20a7c34cbb21f8

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SWALWELL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 149, September 24, 2024, Page H5747):
  Article I, Section 8, of the United States Constitution, specifically Clause 18 (relating to the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the powers vested in congress). The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency a Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 24, 2024 ↗

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  Statement length

  409 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9768, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9768

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0bc18c4ab8e97e126238c0abf6ee7a38b25c949b42dad75bbf20a7c34cbb21f8

  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 committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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