MERIT Act of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 559.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 559, MERIT Act of 2018” on September 7, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 17, 2018”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 7, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54438

  CBO publication date

  September 7, 2018

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 559, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/559

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c958fef1a6107f5b01003898ad321786c68553512fda27ea9c8dee624d1c4366

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LOUDERMILK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 9, January 13, 2017, Page H548):
  Art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 18 To make all laws which shall be necessasry and proper for carrying intoExecution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or inany Department or Officer thereof.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 13, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  254 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 559, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/559

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c958fef1a6107f5b01003898ad321786c68553512fda27ea9c8dee624d1c4366

  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 August 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 559, 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.