Military Religious Freedom Protection Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3828.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HUELSKAMP, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H182):
  This legislation is introduced under the authority of Article 1, Section 8, Clause 14, which grants Congress the power to ``make Rules for the Government and Regulation of land and naval Forces,''; Article 1, Section 8, Clause 16, which grants Congress the power to ``provide for the organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States''; and the ``free exercise'' clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which ensures the right to freely exercise one's religion.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated August 14, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  564 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3828, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/3828

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 14, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fe8b36067942d98b3c077f0af95f55290cb9a2c5381f714053f5ea386a058844

  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 August 14, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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