To deem an urban Indian organization and employees thereof to be a part of the Public Health Service for the purposes of certain claims for personal injury, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6535.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6535, a bill to deem an urban Indian organization and employees thereof to be a part of the Public Health Service for the purposes of certain claims for personal injury, and for other purposes” on September 3, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 29, 2020”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 3, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56546

  CBO publication date

  September 3, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6535, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/6535

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4f853e94e7e3a9d490a1c6d7b830b1a26978f2b95b0c734e95655290e779277f

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 116-651 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on December 15, 2020.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported December 15, 2020 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/HRPT/651

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6535, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/6535

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4f853e94e7e3a9d490a1c6d7b830b1a26978f2b95b0c734e95655290e779277f

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GALLEGO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 73, April 17, 2020, Page H1894):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 17, 2020 ↗

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  31 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6535, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/6535

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4f853e94e7e3a9d490a1c6d7b830b1a26978f2b95b0c734e95655290e779277f

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