Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1342.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WALDEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 38, March 6, 2015, Pages H1623-H1624):
  1) Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts, and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States 2) Article 1, Section 1: All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives ____________________
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 6, 2015 ↗

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  493 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1342, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1342

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  14ff2f9a9657e293429b82eed1561459d3416bb972d3863d9957752c9f38888a

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1342, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.