PATIENT Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3561.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “Estimated Direct Spending and Revenue Effects of H.R. 3561, the PATIENT Act of 2023” on July 11, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As Ordered Reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 24, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 11, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59361

  CBO publication date

  July 11, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3561, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3561

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c5f676a234d92478f837df79b4a3e5ac511b33e617c404f374c54904cb3d82ab

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. RODGERS of Washington, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 86, May 22, 2023, Page H2501):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 The single subject of this legislation is: To lower costs for and improve the health of patients.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 22, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  128 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3561, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3561

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c5f676a234d92478f837df79b4a3e5ac511b33e617c404f374c54904cb3d82ab

  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 committee report (as of July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3561, last updated July 21, 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.