To direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Director of the Bureau of the Census to conduct a study and submit a report about how Federal agencies identify and record cases of housing loss in the United States, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3988.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. OLSZEWSKI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 101, June 12, 2025, Page H2823):
  To direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Director of the Bureau of the Census to conduct a study and submit a report about how Federal agencies identify and record cases of housing loss in the United States, and for other purposes (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18).
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 12, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  289 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3988, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3988

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  167ef5812ed0f3f5b431410ffa4f0855a09731abf4ec3b3eafde6d01071a25c9

  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 September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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