Vaccine Access Improvement Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5143.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DOGGETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 133, August 4, 2023, Page H4166):
  Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: to streamline the application of the vaccine excise tax.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 4, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  169 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5143, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5143

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 20, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6b57edf115dffc716e4f03eb5a61c4d701410e5115c73d153bcc8af6d6f97d4b

  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 December 20, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5143, last updated December 20, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.