Validate Prior Learning to Accelerate Employment Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1446.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ALLEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 35, February 21, 2025, Page H729):
  clause 18 of section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 21, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  55 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1446, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1446

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ae1a79809f8570843074870afc2cdf0277de8b8ea2a257d47a51cf74db3dc3eb

  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 March 4, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1446, last updated March 4, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.