To require the Secretary of the Interior to repay States for amounts expended by States to operate units of the National Park System during a Government shutdown.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5743.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CURTIS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 157, September 27, 2023, Page H4714):
  Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 The single subject of this legislation is: operation of National Park Service assets during a Government shutdown.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 27, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

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  146 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5743, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5743

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  19eb672b0f71c773850722007b6b507a058283c7d26db509acbe4630f2e8f5d0

  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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