Report on Grant Consolidation Authority for Puerto Rico Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 596.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. As as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 12, January 21, 2025, Page H258):
  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 January 21, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  198 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 596, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/596

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dfcb86c7a18d88df41062a675543e17a9ab7ac23615b6114e34c96e4f115f4dd

  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 April 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 596, last updated April 3, 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.