To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for recommendations for the development and use of clinical data registries for the improvement of patient care.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5214.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5214, a bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for recommendations for the development and use of clinical data registries for the improvement of patient care” on September 12, 2014. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 30, 2014”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 12, 2014 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45708

  CBO publication date

  September 12, 2014

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5214, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/5214

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 113-683 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Commerce Committee on December 22, 2014.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 22, 2014 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/113/HRPT/683

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5214, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/5214

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e8c1f3ea92d42f1455ea2f6833c84b6adbd1b39536fc5d9e1e89347755d64b7b

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. OLSON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H6976):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

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  Statement length

  32 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5214, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/5214

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e8c1f3ea92d42f1455ea2f6833c84b6adbd1b39536fc5d9e1e89347755d64b7b

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

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