Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1522.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SOTO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 39, March 2, 2021, Pages H1015-H1016):
  Article IV, Section 3, of the U.S. Constitution, which provide as follows: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; . . . The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 2, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  301 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1522, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1522

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a5ec2a9047aaf1ac7c521b302db51e7cefbdbaa35325bab35185eaa32a3b2672

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1522, 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.