Open Access Evapotranspiration Data Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2429.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. LEE of Nevada, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 58, March 30, 2023, Page H1694):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 provides Congress with the power to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises'' in order to ``provide for the . . . general Welfare of the United States.'' The single subject of this legislation is: To establish the Open Access Evapotranspiration (OpenET) Data Program.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 30, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  311 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2429, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2429

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e02b51cee3f3d52c423873e5616c122f0cee80b0919146b8a5e13a647d3ab8a1

  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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