To make improvements in the enactment of title 41, United States Code, into a positive law title and to improve the Code.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5185.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5185, a bill to make improvements in the enactment of title 41, United States Code, into a positive law title and to improve the Code” on February 3, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 10, 2025”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 3, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62068

  CBO publication date

  February 3, 2026

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5185, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5185

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 15, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b89df46d00df08baa60b24fb87b9bcc091f22931ff3eda8da0d151ea09bd293c

• 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 Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 146, September 8, 2025, Page H3893):
  This bill is introduced pursuant to the powers granted to Congress under the General Welfare Clause (Art. 1 Sec. 8 Cl. 1), the Commerce Clause (Art. 1 Sec. 8 Cl. 3), and the Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. 1Sec. 8Cl. 18). Further, this statement of constitutional authority is made for the sole purpose of compliance with clause 7of Rule XII of the Rules of the House of
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 8, 2025 ↗

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  Statement length

  372 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5185, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5185

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 15, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b89df46d00df08baa60b24fb87b9bcc091f22931ff3eda8da0d151ea09bd293c

  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 September 15, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5185, last updated September 15, 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.