Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, and Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6599.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 200, December 5, 2023, Page H6145):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Tribal water
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 5, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  76 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6599, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6599

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  af4c429a35edbe5207f0b999a3dec82b297fca27d41e904df87022af6989630c

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6599, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.