To amend the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Program to include all lands owned by the United States Government that are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense within the definition of entitlement lands for which payments are made, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4710.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. NEGRETE McLEOD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H4785):
  As enumerated in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Consitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated January 3, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  82 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4710, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/4710

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1f26ac883396c646964e05cbc95a50d31b0b98f35a61173a7e5fe752cc8fa007

  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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