Rental Housing Investment Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8996.

• 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. 87, May 21, 2026, Page H3726):
  Article 1 Section 8: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 21, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  281 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8996, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8996

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 1, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 12, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dc91d5e325268ca92fa1fb9ce7e04c8202fd28da64140631253a80f82fd9c146

  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 1, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8996, last updated September 1, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 12, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.