To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing a rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with respect to the determination of whether an individual is lawfully present in the United States for purposes of the eligibility of such individual for enrollment in certain health insurance programs.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5336.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PFLUGER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 141, September 1, 2023, Page H4218):
  Article 1 Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing a rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with respect to the determination of whether an individual is lawfully present in the United States for purposes of the eligibility of such individual for enrollment in certain health insurance programs.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 1, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

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  401 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5336, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5336

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 20, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b75b0c3e4a4d11fa85d6d5bdd6306e915e02f19830899ac5280b47fe0dd124a9

  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.

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