House bill · 109th Congress · Did not become law

Assured Funding for Veterans Health Care Act of 2005

H.R. 515Introduced Feb 2, 2005Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Sponsor: Rep. Lane Evans D-IL

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Where it went

IntroducedFeb 2, 2005
Committee action—
Passed House—
Passed Senate—
To the President—
Became law—

Latest action: Apr 4, 2005 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 515.

CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 515, Assured Funding for Veterans Health Care Act of 2005” on July 25, 2005. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on February 2, 2005</p>”.
Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 25, 2005 ↗
Evidence
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CBO publication
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17021
CBO publication date
July 25, 2005
Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 515, 109th Congress
Congress.gov API record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/515
Record last updated by Congress.gov
December 5, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
September 27, 2026
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CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 515, Assured Funding for Veterans Health Care Act of 2005” on July 25, 2005. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on February 2, 2005”.
Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 25, 2005 ↗
Evidence
Field in the Congress.gov record
cboCostEstimates
CBO publication
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17021
CBO publication date
July 25, 2005
Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 515, 109th Congress
Congress.gov API record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/515
Record last updated by Congress.gov
December 5, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
September 27, 2026
Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
acbdc73947f1e89aec4cd55ad390603cf238b09a6c57e17a0ec5edaf986daebd
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 515, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 27, 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

144 cosponsors — 15 Republicans, 128 Democrats, 1 independent

15 of 144 cosponsors (10%) are from the other party.

Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Thomas Allen (D-ME), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Joe Baca (D-CA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Howard Berman (D-CA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Rick Boucher (D-VA), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Shelley Capito (R-WV), Lois Capps (D-CA), Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), Julia Carson (D-IN), Ed Case (D-HI), Ben Chandler (D-KY), Wm. Clay (D-MO), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), John Conyers (D-MI), Jerry Costello (D-IL), Robert Cramer (D-AL), Artur Davis (D-AL), Jim Davis (D-FL) and 114 more.

More from the sponsor

Other 109th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lane Evans.

Sponsor’s state and district

Illinois in Congress · IL-17 district

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Data as of Sep 27, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.