Health Care Price Certainty for All Americans Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9645.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of Missouri, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 113, July 13, 2026, Page H4408):
  Constitutional Authority Statement Pursuant to clause 7(c) of rule XII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the following statement is submitted regarding the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill: Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to clause 3 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution (the Commerce Clause) and clause 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution (the Taxing and Spending Clause).
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 13, 2026 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  486 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9645, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9645

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 26, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 12, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3219e04c88c3fe54550508cc18340f7c0f23b7fc8e7efbff705ed7a9eaa21aac

  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 August 26, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9645, last updated August 26, 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.