To lower the age at which a minor may be tried as an adult for certain criminal offenses in the District of Columbia to 14 years of age.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5140.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5140, a bill to lower the age at which a minor may be tried as an adult for certain criminal offenses in the District of Columbia to 14 years of age” on September 15, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 10, 2025”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 15, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61742

  CBO publication date

  September 15, 2025

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5140, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5140

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 11, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  57e022f502c77a04d4567cdc781a710772c33f60891b640ca02846830705a3ee

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GILL of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 145, September 4, 2025, Page H3862):
  Article 1, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 4, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5140, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5140

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 11, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  57e022f502c77a04d4567cdc781a710772c33f60891b640ca02846830705a3ee

  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 committee report (as of July 11, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5140, last updated July 11, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.