To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend honorary citizenship to otherwise qualified noncitizens who enlisted in the Philippines and died while serving on active duty with the United States Armed Forces during certain periods of hostilities, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 887.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JONES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 20, February 6, 2017, Page H1013):
  Article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution gives Congress the authority to ``establish an uniform rule of naturalization'' and to ``make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces''.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 6, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  220 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 887, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/887

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d12393670e0f6a4278d0296b9157a3043577ae61cbc653772a598beb75b404ac

  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 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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