To amend the charter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States organization to make members of the armed forces who receive special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger eligible for membership in the organization, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3838.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3838, A bill to amend the charter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States organization to make members of the armed forces who receive special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger eligible for membership . . .” on July 12, 2002. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 10, 2002</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 12, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13826

  CBO publication date

  July 12, 2002

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3838, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/3838

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c6c7214e3f225da271ab78e581172c0c8b2dc8b849ec7dcdfad4c8cef8604c64

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3838, A bill to amend the charter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States organization to make members of the armed forces who receive special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger eligible for membership . . .” on July 12, 2002. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 10, 2002”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 12, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13826

  CBO publication date

  July 12, 2002

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3838, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/3838

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c6c7214e3f225da271ab78e581172c0c8b2dc8b849ec7dcdfad4c8cef8604c64

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3838, An act to amend the charter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States organization to make members of the armed forces who receive special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger eligible for membership . . .” on September 10, 2002. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 5, 2002</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 10, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13977

  CBO publication date

  September 10, 2002

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3838, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/3838

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c6c7214e3f225da271ab78e581172c0c8b2dc8b849ec7dcdfad4c8cef8604c64

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3838, An act to amend the charter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States organization to make members of the armed forces who receive special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger eligible for membership . . .” on September 10, 2002. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 5, 2002”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 10, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13977

  CBO publication date

  September 10, 2002

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3838, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/3838

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c6c7214e3f225da271ab78e581172c0c8b2dc8b849ec7dcdfad4c8cef8604c64

• 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: H. Rept. 107-570 ↗.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 5, 2002 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/107/HRPT/570

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3838, 107th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/3838

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c6c7214e3f225da271ab78e581172c0c8b2dc8b849ec7dcdfad4c8cef8604c64

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3838, last updated August 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.