To direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to regain observer status for Taiwan in the World Health Organization, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1145.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1145, a bill to direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to regain observer status for Taiwan in the World Health Organization, and for other purposes” on April 21, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 25, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 21, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57158

  CBO publication date

  April 21, 2021

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1145, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1145

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b0a45aaca2f6cf5e47c487c3a7216a98982266c434940dc15d64a19af74aac49

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. KIM of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 31, February 18, 2021, Page H537):
  Article 1, Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 18, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  21 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1145, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1145

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b0a45aaca2f6cf5e47c487c3a7216a98982266c434940dc15d64a19af74aac49

  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 committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1145, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.