Career and Technical Education Access Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5531.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of Washington, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 154, September 19, 2025, Page H4489):
  Article 1 Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 19, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5531, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5531

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 17, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  baf2dc0c96f079dc8be75e4f9c054adb25dc53afa83a03b56c24051c78df5888

  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 December 17, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5531, last updated December 17, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.