Data Improvement for Puerto Rico Recovery Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9744.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VELAZQUEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 147, September 20, 2024, Page H5563):
  Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; . . . The single subject of this legislation is: Disaster recovery
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 20, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  260 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9744, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9744

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 16, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bf0cc057777eac65ad6dea9ad10b947906686d8941875ac0da261758899b0595

  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 16, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9744, last updated December 16, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.