EMPOWER Act of 2018

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3728.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3728, Educating Medical Professionals and Optimizing Workforce Efficiency and Readiness Act of 2018” on July 27, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on July 23, 2018”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 27, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54310

  CBO publication date

  July 27, 2018

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3728, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3728

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  12a3e97e839105bf801c970c41852790bd2a158fb47b0c9df52ef6f20b7f14e0

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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. 163, No. 146, September 11, 2017, Page H7223):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have 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
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 11, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  292 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3728, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3728

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  12a3e97e839105bf801c970c41852790bd2a158fb47b0c9df52ef6f20b7f14e0

  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 committee report (as of April 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3728, last updated April 21, 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.