Northern Mariana Islands Long-Term Legal Residents Relief Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 559.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SABLAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 8, January 15, 2019, Page H602):
  Under Article I, Section 8, Clauses 4 and Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 15, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  115 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 559, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/559

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4c76e5c0a0d1c8d87c0157babbeb14b17fe96549927bf4ad7cb907bf04efcb6d

  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. 559, 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.