Data Improvement for Puerto Rico Recovery Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5501.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. VELAZQUEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 153, September 18, 2025, Page H4457):
  Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; . . .
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 18, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  199 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5501, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5501

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 18, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0fd2bfe64172d2e255fba0f4b2a8c8625d179e0543243393c753b1e1aa6f8f09

  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 November 18, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5501, last updated November 18, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.