To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to identify individuals dually enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP and an Exchange.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6516.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BURCHETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 207, December 9, 2025, Page H5112):
  Article 1, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 9, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6516, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6516

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 7, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7824cc422e45cab105254443b49f7a0ecad43820725cb7ed6fdb90fe1a4e61f4

  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 January 7, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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