COVID–19 Benefits for Active Duty Servicemembers, the Reserve Components, and their Survivors Act of 2020

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7728.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DAVID P. ROE of Tennessee, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 129, July 22, 2020, Page H3694):
  Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, which states ``[t]he Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 22, 2020 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  335 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7728, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/7728

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e1b39b2a1c7d28a0b3351f4b79389f95bee6a2715f122ccd0c9d9234e46b2b56

  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 September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7728, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.