To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard) to issue, at no cost to the United States, a military service identification card to persons who served in the Armed Forces.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3293.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BASS of New Hampshire, as printed in the Congressional Record (Pages H7207-H7208):
  Clause 14, of Section 8, of Article I
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated June 6, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  37 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3293, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/3293

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dd1df1a18c395bd8ac2aa8136c24faea332ba26cd5ce0ea6e67984bb8811987a

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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