Small Business Payment for Performance Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2726.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STAUBER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 65, April 19, 2023, Page H1888):
  The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution, which provides Congress with the ability to enact legislation necessary and proper to effectuate its purposes in taxing and spending. The single subject of this legislation is: The purpose of the Small Business Payment for Performance Act is to require the federal goverment to make timely payments to small business contractors for costs occured from government-issued change orders.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 19, 2023 ↗

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  496 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2726, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2726

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 14, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  23401d5236b52b5654e87bb7adf675ce10e37f26cb57b6141b99d5c195cbd437

  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 November 14, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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