To award a Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Dr. John Cheng, a hero who died protecting others on May 15, 2022.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3588.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. PORTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 86, May 22, 2023, Page H2502):
  Article I, Sec. 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To award a Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Dr. John Cheng, a hero who died protecting others on May 15, 2022
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 22, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  178 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3588, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3588

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c48dc6b9d4b580f308de7ff1b299747858b5d4f07de4628058211d01c018508a

  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 May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3588, last updated May 27, 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.