Prioritizing Rural Hospitals Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4272.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. UNDERWOOD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 114, July 2, 2025, Page H3189):
  Article 1, Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 2, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  283 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4272, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4272

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 29, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 30, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0ed1adc2277efeea88eaef344a7f02ade50adfcf5f4eaf430a9cf82005a0cb6d

  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 29, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4272, last updated September 29, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 30, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.