To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a temporary exception to the application of the Medicare long-term care hospital site neutral provisions for certain spinal cord specialty hospitals.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5688.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 110, July 8, 2016, Page H4574):
  Consistent with the understanding and interpretation of the Commerce Clause, Congress has the authority to enact this legislation in accordance with Clause 3 of Section 8, Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 8, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  207 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5688, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5688

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  283f7a47f969dec55d333342b1803f68afca3f40229350bc108a32af562b3d00

  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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