To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and title 5, United States Code, to clarify that organ donation surgery qualifies as a serious health condition.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4582.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BACON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 125, July 22, 2025, Page H3553):
  Clauses 3 and 18 of Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S.Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 22, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  63 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4582, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4582

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 16, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  October 19, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d35ddde0bae893f52948447069b62aee5fe4b1c4b4cf3729e5da17a945e0deb0

  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 October 16, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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