GUIDE Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7642.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7642, Generating Utility through International Disaster Expertise Act” on April 21, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 26, 2026”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 21, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62368

  CBO publication date

  April 21, 2026

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7642, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7642

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 11, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  20d9ddcdec24ac35181d3615209126bfd120582c68ad356eeda12668d5a09b6d

• 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 Mrs. KIM, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 35, February 23, 2026, Page H2258):
  Article I, Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 23, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  21 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7642, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7642

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 11, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  20d9ddcdec24ac35181d3615209126bfd120582c68ad356eeda12668d5a09b6d

  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 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7642, last updated September 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 11, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.