Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 42.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BEGICH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H37):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Excluding all amounts distributed or benefits provided by a Settlement Trust to blind, disabled, and Alaska Native Elders and their descendants when determining eligibility for governmental benefits.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  263 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 42, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/42

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 11, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7f05a744ea87d8a06884e105fa432b1151ccfb6912810d759c89cceb1df0290f

  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 July 11, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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