Earned Income Tax Credit Improvement and Simplification Act 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 822.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEAL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 18, February 2, 2017, Page H945):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, and the Sixteenth Amendment.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 2, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  60 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 822, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/822

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c7e126a62ea12dd9993e0be32d3f4f812c822faa88761402ddd599dab7d4fc9b

  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. 822, 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.