Disaster Assistance Risk Transfer Act of 2018

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5973.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ROSS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 87, May 25, 2018, Page H4732):
  The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the explicit power of Congress to regulate commerce in and among the states, as enumerate in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3, the Commerce Clause, of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 25, 2018 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  237 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5973, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5973

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ca4e9fa92bf81943494a886ec80952822f154f0f7e9711f6f032fc73137617a3

  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. 5973, 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.