Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 40.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. PRESSLEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Pages H36-H37):
  Pursuant to Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Congress shall have the power to enact appropriate laws protecting the civil rights of all Americans The single subject of this legislation is: To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

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  333 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 40, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/40

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b1aaad1afeb89c3962e1b93ecc4b9cf01d6b24310245e349134638024b7d43ba

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 40, last updated September 19, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 24, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.