To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide certain fire management assistance to Indian Tribal Governments, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3957.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 101, June 12, 2025, Page H2822):
  This bill is enacted pursuant to the authority under Article I Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 12, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  107 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3957, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3957

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0d09433bee6a697d017c1f9d99e0f37c9a28eba5f016d0476988808ad97d7485

  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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