Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Through Improvements to Patent Litigation Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2884.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “Estimated Budgetary Effects of H.R. 2884, the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Through Improvements to Patent Litigation Act” on August 11, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 30, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 11, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58386

  CBO publication date

  August 11, 2022

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2884, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2884

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0e32f71ef6729ad25f2c85c01970bf469d3d9c7994a94ae9a02ad1a078225255

• 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 Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 73, April 28, 2021, Page H2128):
  This bill is enacted pursuant to Article I, section 8, clause 18.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 28, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  65 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2884, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2884

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0e32f71ef6729ad25f2c85c01970bf469d3d9c7994a94ae9a02ad1a078225255

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

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2884, last updated January 3, 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.