Marine Disease Emergency Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 936.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HECK of Washington, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 24, February 12, 2015, Page H1036):
  Article I, Section 8: ``Congress shall have power to . . . make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carring into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 12, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  289 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 936, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/936

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fa1d79a3ab8d18e450d173e73a82a1e1d96e8fee61568e6d2ba36212245dd22a

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 936, last updated August 12, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.