Promote Affordable Rural Housing Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7238.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NUNN of Iowa, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 20, February 5, 2024, Page H432):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Housing Act of 1949 to extend the term of rural housing site loans to clarify the permissible uses of such loans.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 5, 2024 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7238, 118th Congress

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  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7238

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e996743ddb23e7a3c448b6ce3b0794e052959ec66d5cb3f56963b00d5ba82c74

  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 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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