A bill to make retroactive the entitlement of certain Medal of Honor recipients to the special pension provided for persons entered and recorded on the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard Medal of Honor Roll.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 730.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 730, A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rate of special pension for persons in the Medal of Honor roll and to make retroactive the entitlement of certain Medal of Honor recipients to the special pension” on October 8, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on October 7, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 8, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10453

  CBO publication date

  October 8, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 730, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/730

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 730, A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve authorities of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs relating to Medal of Honor special pension, life insurance, and burial benefits, and for other purposes” on August 11, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on July 28, 1998”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 11, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11079

  CBO publication date

  August 11, 1998

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 730, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/730

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  40d2accc7dc0853f0dceba3b8de778e2956860de882b76ecf84cea0498428b04

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 105-339 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Veterans' Affairs Committee on September 21, 1998.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 21, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/SRPT/339

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 730, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/730

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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