Access to Life-Saving Trauma Care for All Americans Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 647.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 647, Access to Life-Saving Trauma Care for All Americans Act” on March 11, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on February 12, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 11, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50022

  CBO publication date

  March 11, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 647, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/647

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0f8639eec9189c0ac9454af32832896a77523db3310905223a12ffa08ee863be

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-42 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Commerce Committee on March 16, 2015.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported March 16, 2015 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/42

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 647, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/647

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0f8639eec9189c0ac9454af32832896a77523db3310905223a12ffa08ee863be

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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. BURGESS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 17, February 2, 2015, Page H704):
  Article One, Section Eight, Clause One ``The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.'' Article One, Section Eight, Clause Three ``To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 2, 2015 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  455 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 647, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/647

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0f8639eec9189c0ac9454af32832896a77523db3310905223a12ffa08ee863be

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

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