Improving Public Health Preparedness Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3837.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 98, June 6, 2023, Page H2763):
  The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; The single subject of this legislation is: This legislation codifies the Strategic National Stockpile under the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 6, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  424 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3837, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3837

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1abd725badab39ee3f2d0ffc29820ba1bf2b909835141b590da722207e10d963

  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. 3837, 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.