Preventing Improper Payments Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 877.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MOORE of Utah, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 26, February 8, 2023, Pages H781-H782):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 18 allows Congress to make all laws ``which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution'' any of Congress's enumerated powers, including Congress's powers over appropriations. The single subject of this legislation is: Preventing large new federal programs from being unnecessarily susceptible to improper payments.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 8, 2023 ↗

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  358 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 877, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/877

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b9c88cac923c890a1aa78ad47287206ccf926fae73c0538b092a6ea055651310

  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 February 4, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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