Drug Price Transparency in Medicaid Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1613.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTER of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 50, March 17, 2023, Page H1294):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve transparency and prevent the use of abusive spread pricing and related practices in the Medicaid program.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 17, 2023 ↗

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  246 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1613, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1613

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a74d7e7b31865d8a1518c3e3be52c5a4b561419c902bf5638dfb32c797ff58e1

  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.

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