To prohibit the disclosure of records by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of individuals for the purposes of immigration enforcement, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5340.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VARGAS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 149, September 11, 2025, Page H4266):
  Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 11, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  55 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5340, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5340

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 11, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1104b25a564662c5ed0d53c0a24583afa5df7636ea7fc5eadcb87e2640bc7e0b

  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 June 11, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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