To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to apply budget neutrality on a State-specific basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor for non-rural areas.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2053.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BRADY of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H2803):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated January 3, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  31 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2053, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/2053

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  77308402da72b2a76c04d452c807b38790fd670ba8da07a1140bf1e9c0baeb0c

  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 January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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