Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5715.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 156, September 26, 2023, Page H4500):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax rate parity among all tobacco products, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 26, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  195 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5715, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5715

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5478fdc7cf5609db29851596b3ddefc14c940f0e48b219a97c9ca95c640e533e

  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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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