To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 596.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 596, a bill to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, and for other purposes” on January 30, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As introduced”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 30, 2015 ↗

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49921

  CBO publication date

  January 30, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 596, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/596

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  944b54fc1cac87e98294aa85c082f4c117087c900efcb5809b6d7353f287b440

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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. BYRNE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 14, January 28, 2015, Page H663):
  This Act repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and title I and subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, which included several specific provisions that extend beyond the enumerated powers granted to Congress by the Constitution, including, in particular, the Commerce, Taxing, and the Spending Clauses of Article I, Section 8, as well as the Necessary and Proper Clauses contained therein, and that otherwise improperly extend authority to Federal agencies in a manner inconsistent with the Vesting Clause of Article I, Section 1. The general repeal of this legislation is consistent with the powers that are reserved to the…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 28, 2015 ↗

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  786 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 596, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/596

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  944b54fc1cac87e98294aa85c082f4c117087c900efcb5809b6d7353f287b440

  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 committee report (as of September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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