Long-Term Opioid Efficacy Act of 2018

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5811.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5811, a bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to postapproval study requirements for certain controlled substances, and for other purposes” on June 11, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 17, 2018”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 11, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54021

  CBO publication date

  June 11, 2018

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5811, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5811

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4d7b0d6a80428e1ecce051c47418abf7286fa1af8dd92361433090d857f33e3f

• 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. McNERNEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 79, May 15, 2018, Page H3978):
  Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States grants Congress the authority to enact this bill.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 15, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  111 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5811, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5811

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4d7b0d6a80428e1ecce051c47418abf7286fa1af8dd92361433090d857f33e3f

  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. 5811, last updated August 11, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.