Small Business Child Care Investment Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2602.

• 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. 62, April 13, 2023, Page H1727):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 provides Congress with the power to ``lay and college Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises'' The single subject of this legislation is: Small business
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 13, 2023 ↗

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  179 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2602, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2602

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  aa66f8f8845499d76dc5e3ffe830094a75f17ef137dae258a7dcbffd569f4af3

  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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