PACE Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1696.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. MURPHY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 44, March 12, 2019, Page H2681):
  Article I, Section 8, which authorizes Congress to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States, and to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out that power.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 12, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  263 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1696, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1696

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  972f2451f94cf3e27bb654948d816be6c8aa85be83440dfd89808a4f6960464f

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1696, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.