Community Mental Wellness Worker Training Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8680.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ESPAILLAT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 98, June 11, 2024, Page H3726):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The Congress shall have Power to . . . provide for the . . . general Welfare of the United States; . . . The single subject of this legislation is: This would create a grant program that would allow hospitals and other medical clinics to train community mental health wellness workers.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 11, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

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  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  316 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8680, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8680

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 26, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  cc04f003880dae509864cd75dfb07456d98b90e1495c96d01f7c90002e40ac63

  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 August 26, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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