District of Columbia Policing Protection Act of 2025

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5143.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5143, District of Columbia Policing Protection Act of 2025” 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/61743

  CBO publication date

  September 15, 2025

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5143, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5143

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  82f81128ebcea3e298c29f9def3a63f36a4c4f52d826dfff44e7b1e2106582f4

• 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. HIGGINS of Louisiana, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 145, September 4, 2025, Page H3862):
  Article 1, Section 8, clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department or Officer thereof
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 4, 2025 ↗

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  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  264 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5143, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5143

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  82f81128ebcea3e298c29f9def3a63f36a4c4f52d826dfff44e7b1e2106582f4

  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 February 4, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5143, last updated February 4, 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.