To prohibit the use of funds to seek membership in the World Health Organization or to provide assessed or voluntary contributions to the World Health Organization.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3131.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ARRINGTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 78, May 9, 2023, Page H2172):
  Article 1 section 8 of the US Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: This bill creates a list of conditions upon which U.S. Membership in the WHO are incumbent.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 9, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  177 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3131, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3131

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 11, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bf1a74aa8336c5fcc15807a498fd58aa22bf77bc47328a1b72c01eb6300097d1

  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 June 11, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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