Refund Equality Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3234.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEAL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 118, July 13, 2017, Page H5832):
  Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 13, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  69 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3234, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3234

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  19f69321569c453be8eeb602a2ce6077c579ae2658e45ad54935ca9fda7ffd15

  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 4, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3234, last updated December 4, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.