To amend title 31, United States Code, to prohibit the issuance of United States currency and securities containing the signature of the sitting President.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8174.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOMEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 61, April 2, 2026, Page H2821):
  Clauses 2 and 5 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 2, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  61 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8174, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8174

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 9, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  70c908679afc836568de79dd3a39a6d2b239da95734bfe32db29502689f5c4b4

  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 April 9, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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