Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Process Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 727.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PIERLUISI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 19, February 4, 2015, Page H813):
  The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of the Congress to admit new States into the Union and to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territories of the United States, as enumerated in Section 3 of Article IV of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 4, 2015 ↗

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  274 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 727, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/727

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4a3ee008ee0182c63a5b817c181752786858510bdcca0b05e6894a0ffc45fd9c

  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 August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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