To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to authorize a study to review specific outcomes of entrepreneurial skills development programs, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2099.

• 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. 49, March 14, 2025, Page H1162):
  Clause 18 of section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 14, 2025 ↗

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  55 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2099, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2099

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  be7aae34aef1671c5ba5b0b8b0cc6ba1b713ede009c6ac84d60d9af89dd2b1ee

  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 September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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