House bill · 108th Congress · Did not become law
To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the management of health care services for veterans to place certain low-income veterans in a higher health-care priority category.
Sponsor: Rep. Timothy Bishop D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 22, 2003
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 22, 2003 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2816.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2816, A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the management of health care services for veterans to place certain low-income veterans in a higher health-care priority category” on January 16, 2004. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on July 22, 2003</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 16, 2004 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/15174
- CBO publication date
- January 16, 2004
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2816, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/2816
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 2, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a36b4580b2811cab6f8c74ec8ed86bfb0d9d7334f36c5f59cc4b265737734b0b
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2816, A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the management of health care services for veterans to place certain low-income veterans in a higher health-care priority category” on January 16, 2004. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on July 22, 2003”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 16, 2004 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/15174
- CBO publication date
- January 16, 2004
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2816, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/2816
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 2, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a36b4580b2811cab6f8c74ec8ed86bfb0d9d7334f36c5f59cc4b265737734b0b
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.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of January 2, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2816, last updated January 2, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
19 cosponsors — 19 Democrats
0 of 19 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Rick Boucher (D-VA), Ed Case (D-HI), Donna Christensen (D-VI), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Martin Frost (D-TX), Gene Green (D-TX), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Steve Israel (D-NY), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Max Sandlin (D-TX), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Ellen Tauscher (D-CA), Mark Udall (D-CO), Albert Wynn (D-MD).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 28, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.