Outpatient Surgery Quality and Access Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 972.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WENSTRUP, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 27, February 9, 2023, Page H829):
  Article 1 Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Health
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 9, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  69 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 972, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/972

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  aec0a313eb7818f1b79cd17b1154af391eded63c45f8e6d444eba9cb78d26c7f

  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. 972, 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.