To extend the waiver of limitations with respect to excluding from gross income amounts received by wrongfully incarcerated individuals.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6438.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 174, December 5, 2016, Page H7181):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America. ____________________
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 5, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  104 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6438, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/6438

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  54e88a965ecc51093ab42266d831ab330e6093a1dca35c1a02a47209066ebd05

  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.

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