Strategy and Investment in Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3620.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3620, Strategy and Investment in Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2019” on September 9, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on July 11, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 9, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55603

  CBO publication date

  September 9, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3620, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3620

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 116-198 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on September 6, 2019.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 6, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/HRPT/198

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3620, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3620

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CLAY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 112, July 5, 2019, Page H5272):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 5, 2019 ↗

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  Statement length

  64 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3620, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3620

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 28, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3fbf62e2178cfdca18542defca4f7a8de3a32d6c03d4ea8c6db97571f9efda3c

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