Prohibiting the Usurpation of Bathroom Laws through Independent Choice School Act (PUBLIC School Act) of 2016

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5275.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MESSER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 79, May 18, 2016, Page H2845):
  Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution: ``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, Congressional Record May 18, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  216 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5275, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5275

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5ee3fcae98982006583478be51a9c6c1d2040dd18e1dfba1f8adff5fd894c8a5

  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 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5275, last updated August 12, 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.