Protect Working Musicians Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5576.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. ROSS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 151, September 19, 2023, Page H4409):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution; Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution; and Article 1 Section 8 Clause 18 of The single subject of this legislation is: To empower independent music creator owners to collectively negotiate with dominant online platforms and generative artificial intelligence developers regarding the terms on which their music may be distributed.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 19, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  423 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5576, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5576

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 11, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a093a9a70832948aa48eca53a28defdd127a06eeb1a856199156300d140e9e5a

  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 June 11, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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