Protecting Military Parental Leave Evaluations Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 656.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. BICE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 14, January 23, 2025, Page H388):
  Article 1 , Section 8 Clause 13: to provide and maintain a Navy Clause 14: to make rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces Clause 16: to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service in the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress Clause 18: to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States or in any…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 23, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  727 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 656, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/656

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  53f723c20c104b38a11a4b54e068612e85f47ae51e42d5fd0f03f4f22f4b77c1

  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 February 4, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 656, last updated February 4, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.