To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase and adjust for inflation the above-the-line deduction for teachers.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 228.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GRIFFITH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 3, January 7, 2025, Page H63):
  Article I, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 7, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 228, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/228

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 10, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a178cca554620d08f9d6b4dcdbf72f3066786f663a3df545ea7e78ab06862c37

  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 10, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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