Reserve Component Parental Leave Parity Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2597.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JACKSON of North Carolina, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 62, April 13, 2023, Page H1727):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 14 The single subject of this legislation is: parental leave for reserve component servicemembers
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 13, 2023 ↗

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  126 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2597, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2597

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a55ae3d90b9c673df1fd7fdd5174d9bcca61f3259650d4818b7f27788d240989

  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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