To amend the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consider certain recognized security practices of covered entities and business associates when making certain determinations, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7898.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BURGESS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 136, July 31, 2020, Page H4214):
  Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 31, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7898, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/7898

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d2e75b1dcf8a32b8083365c5ab748c909f3a68dc0488e300a181bbdd4ec38e3d

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7898, last updated April 7, 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.