To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the calculation of modified adjusted gross income for purposes of determining eligibility for certain healthcare-related programs.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2576.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2576, A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the calculation of modified adjusted gross income for purposes of determining eligibility for certain healthcare-related programs” on October 31, 2011. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the billCost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Committee on Ways and Means on October 13, 2011 as ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on October 5, 2011”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 31, 2011 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/42651

  CBO publication date

  October 31, 2011

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2576, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2576

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f001b280ff6febc361a69fa0aa51d17b9d2dc7df4bbb2177c4dec07eb13e1ce5

• 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.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 112-254 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on October 18, 2011.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 18, 2011 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/112/HRPT/254

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2576, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2576

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f001b280ff6febc361a69fa0aa51d17b9d2dc7df4bbb2177c4dec07eb13e1ce5

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. BLACK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H5150):
  This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution; whereby the Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. Furthermore, this bill makes specific changes to existing law, in accordance with the Sixteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution; whereby the Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States,…
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

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  Statement length

  747 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2576, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2576

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f001b280ff6febc361a69fa0aa51d17b9d2dc7df4bbb2177c4dec07eb13e1ce5

  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 notePursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 448, the text of H.R. 2576, as passed by the House, was appended at the end of H.R. 674 as new matter.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  notes

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2576, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2576

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f001b280ff6febc361a69fa0aa51d17b9d2dc7df4bbb2177c4dec07eb13e1ce5

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