To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to allow certain States to directly purchase commodities, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7455.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. TOKUDA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 27, February 9, 2026, Pages H2096-H2097):
  Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 9, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  73 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7455, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7455

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 2, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  678fd63508221467793d54f761791326280a70ed06d61f556fb2c733756c89a2

  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 July 2, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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