Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 647.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ENGEL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 10, January 17, 2019, Page H720):
  Article I, Section 1; Article I, Section 8, Clause 1; Article I, Section 8, Clause 3; and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 17, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  122 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 647, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/647

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  519378b112505e2807159da9f6a89e0c3a906972d5b3a8d110c9f25d5fd5587b

  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. 647, 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.