State Health Care Flexibility Act of 2011

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 782.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McCOTTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H1179):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: The Congress shall have Power To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes. Further, this legislation would enable the States to exercise the rights granted to them by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated August 14, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  470 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 782, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/782

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 14, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0548b227bf04928c6a71cb9e6e3641427671686d10247d2f5ab0d16eb0f775b2

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 782, last updated August 14, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 25, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.