IHS Provider Integrity Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8955.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 113, July 9, 2024, Page H4528):
  Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to ensure that, whenever the Indian Health Service undertakes an investigation into the professional conduct of a licensee of a State, the Service notifies the relevant State medical board, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 9, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  369 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8955, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8955

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1a8098eb2517323aa964d47d09a5ac1cea677b5ce48bb2437711f242f6c753c3

  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 May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8955, last updated May 27, 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.