To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend through December 31, 1998, the period during which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs is authorized to provide priority health care to certain veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange or who served in the Persian Gulf War and to make such authority permanent in the case of certain veterans exposed to ionizing radiation, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3643.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 104-648 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Veterans' Affairs Committee on June 28, 1996.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported June 28, 1996 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/104/HRPT/648

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3643, 104th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/104/hr/3643

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 29, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a75891367a07034c428bf946f6d68e692464d5085426b97590fa3f382250d882

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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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