Protecting Our Widows and Widowers in Retirement Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3926.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. SANCHEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 99, June 7, 2023, Page H2781):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: This bill increases Social Security benefits for widows or widowers in two-income house establishing an alternative method to calculate survivors benefits based on combined household benefit amounts.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 7, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  263 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3926, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3926

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d4900a91bf28a9c5f27af3ce7b6bc2154e402eca0472a047372d364506cb4d9c

  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 September 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3926, last updated September 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.