To designate the area between the intersections of 18th Street Northwest and Church Street Northwest, and 18th Street Northwest and P Street Northwest, in the District of Columbia as "Jimmy Lai Way", and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2522.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 57, March 31, 2025, Page H1376):
  Article I, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 31, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2522, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2522

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  440a0d5a454538b11378a7fd8a0953d27bc3b004e7b4529486d26319aab938c5

  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 May 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2522, last updated May 21, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.