Puerto Rico Humanitarian Relief Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3966.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PALMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 160, October 5, 2017, Page H7888):
  Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2--The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make allneedful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or the other Property belonging to the United States . . . ''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 5, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  204 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3966, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3966

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  411bcc8a4c7087b38c25537393dea94061c44f24c65e2302edf7f567ceb5cb26

  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 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3966, last updated August 11, 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.