Effective Death Penalty Appeals Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9868.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 151, September 27, 2024, Page H5839):
  Article I Section 1. The single subject of this legislation is: This is a bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to clarify the availability of Federal habeas corpus relief for a person who is sentenced to death though actually innocent.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 27, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  242 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9868, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9868

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 13, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  56b2eee022dfbbd0ef0c9d1304477cf9a62fb56473b34f191eccac6bacbe140b

  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 August 13, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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