TRICARE Fairness for National Guard and Reserve Retirees Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1997.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 51, March 18, 2021, Page H1582):
  Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 18, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  42 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1997, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1997

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7d526a87151c4249c9da6fb17c727b5d7855c35e021bada248882dc391b257ba

  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. 1997, 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.