Pell Plus Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5489.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 149, September 14, 2023, Page H4348):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish the Pell Plus program.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 14, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  109 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5489, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5489

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6acf4bd11fee770c5f26251c0f29c88563e6f72195703ba4cc5258162a457a62

  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 July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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