Medical Laboratory Personnel Shortage Relief Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9849.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. ROSS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 150, September 25, 2024, Page H5832):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 1 (Taxing and Spending Clause) The single subject of this legislation is: To improve and build the workforce comprised of medical laboratory personnel.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 25, 2024 ↗

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  180 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9849, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9849

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a798a81d15b73955061908583269fdda6e1e49880330ac44a453d41cca781c01

  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 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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