Health Care Practitioner Disaster Protection Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5829.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BARR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 159, September 29, 2023, Page H4910):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: This bill extends certain liability protections available for health care practitioners who provide voluntary health care services in declared emergencies through a community health center other than the one that initially sponsored them.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 29, 2023 ↗

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  302 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5829, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5829

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 30, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4e88a9e13618d56c0b9da1d197b99bfe54addc863154036d53a9124bb39bda9b

  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 October 30, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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