Rural Broadband Connectivity Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3999.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BERGMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 126, July 25, 2019, Page H7469):
  Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 25, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  61 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3999, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3999

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fd968d3d78d5962d33ec39b575806b0949b1ac0d46591105c9850d7f4e4c1a9d

  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. 3999, 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.