Puerto Rico Status Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2757.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GRIJALVA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 66, April 20, 2023, Page H1910):
  Article. IV. Section 3. Clause 2. ``The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.'' The single subject of this legislation is: To enable the people of Puerto Rico to choose a permanent, nonterritorial, fully self-governing political status for Puerto Rico and to provide for a transition to and the implementation of that permanent, nonterritorial, fully self- governing political status, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 20, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  660 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2757, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2757

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e837b8cb0fc224c6acba4e5c104479a8ad3e3e0e7f86a2793d2b174d57cc078a

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2757, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.