To direct the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the vessel Apollonia, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5536.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GIBSON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 98, June 20, 2016, Page H3975):
  Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article 1. ____________________
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 20, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  56 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5536, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5536

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f2fe243a97383eb62256b08c52b00b1890304aa9eafa8356dbf349f9c69a1119

  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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