Puerto Rico Admission Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1965.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SOTO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 54, March 28, 2019, Page H2918):
  Article 1, Section 8, and Article 4, Section 3, of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 28, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  82 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1965, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1965

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f6fc38490a0e5709b145cc86c5c0b61089017a7c1dd9e668b28e6ccee26763e6

  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 January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1965, last updated January 3, 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.