To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for increasing wages paid to child care providers.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8023.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. SANCHEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 50, March 19, 2026, Page H2622):
  Section 8 of Article 1 ``Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the debts and provide for the comon Defence and general Welfare of the United States''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 19, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  179 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8023, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8023

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 16, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  39014cf656d98e2a51f94ba12a53005d66b6d8cb5ff20acef87df71093c8dce4

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

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