Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 555.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KINZINGER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 9, January 13, 2017, Page H547):
  The Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1[Rights Gauaranteed]; . . . the means employed to effect its exercise may be neither arbitrary nor oppressive but must bear areal and substantial relation to an end that is public, specifically, the public health, safety, or morals, or some other aspectof the general welfare.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 13, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  311 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 555, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/555

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  127587dcd995e872f8102d3307d35bd28c87b92296383b757524a3104ada707e

  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 September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 555, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.