Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Through Improvements to Patent Litigation Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3991.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 126, July 25, 2019, Pages H7468-H7469):
  U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 25, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  40 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3991, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3991

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1fd464d4f47f7603d6d74be339b5f7bdb3f1450f2727d6cdaf33655155ea80ea

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3991, last updated April 7, 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.