Oral Health Literacy and Awareness Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 994.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARDENAS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 30, February 14, 2023, Page H840):
  Article 1, Section 1 All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. The single subject of this legislation is: Oral health care
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 14, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  232 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 994, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/994

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b6557e37f427b3c1e6324e1032bfe014c7d2558fd6e28c95ec62620c86828b79

  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.

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