Study on Improving Lands Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5971.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEGUSE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 170, October 17, 2023, Page H5021):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Secretary of Agriculture to direct a study on soil health of Federal lands, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 17, 2023 ↗

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  178 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5971, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5971

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 1, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7c683c157eba9142dc231f324e261979ff8f287c3f1b00e39122f767d1ff375e

  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 1, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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