To amend the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 to make improvements to the Federal Cyber Scholarship for Service Program, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 494.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CONNOLLY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 9, January 16, 2025, Page H222):
  Article 1, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 16, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 494, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/494

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 9, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7a48c303f3fd2064600b1149610a1c4f6441f196e7f86c278ddbb1ba27558ad7

  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 July 9, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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