Employee and Retiree Access to Justice Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9820.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DESAULNIER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 150, September 25, 2024, Page H5831):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To provide that any mandatory predispute or coerced postdispute arbitration clause, class action waiver, representation waiver, or discretionary clause with respect to a plan is unenforceable, and to prohibit any such clause or waiver from being included in a plan document or other agreement with plan participants
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 25, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  379 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9820, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9820

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e97a67aaa541207fc590c632ae547f04433307a7ddf3a0da5aae5745758549f5

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9820, last updated December 5, 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.