Making Agricultural Products Locally Essential (MAPLE) Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 293.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LANGWORTHY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 5, January 9, 2025, Page H93):
  Clause 3 of section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 9, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 293, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/293

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 19, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  129f6504db2eaab247156a86829a50eed4d89375e607b2de4f7a95316083d5bb

  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 19, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 293, last updated December 19, 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.