Rural Health Innovation Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4898.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KUSTOFF of Tennessee, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 171, October 29, 2019, Page H8595):
  Under Article I, Section 8, the Necessary and Proper Clause. Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers and all Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or any Department or Officer thereof.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 29, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  309 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4898, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4898

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a03d8395a6ff07fbcad6ab0230b46db9e5f43f3188d306c4b19a9fb2913d9cb5

  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. 4898, 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.