Refundable Child Tax Credit Eligibility Verification Reform Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 979.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. POSEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 22, February 5, 2019, Page H1363):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, which grants Congress the ``Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises.'' Authority to enact this legislation is also granted by Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, which grants Congress the authority ``to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 5, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  387 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 979, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/979

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c98e1a739922c70a5c5c7207fb3e999bdf8c09190447649db190a24b0e74976e

  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 January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 979, last updated January 3, 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.