Justice for Local Communities and Workers Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9963.

• 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. 155, October 11, 2024, Page H5867):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To require employers who are ordering a plant closing or mass layoff to cover the cost of an economic impact study in each impacted unit of local government and to update the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 11, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  288 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9963, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9963

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 14, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  80afce0e492bc7db9be91ec162d022e1b7338138fa3baad28325a61b0d0d0685

  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 14, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9963, last updated August 14, 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.