Senate bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013
Sponsor: Sen. Bernie Sanders I-VTWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 25, 2013
- Committee actionJul 24, 2013
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 17, 2013 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 186.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 851.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 851, Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013” on August 15, 2013. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on July 24, 2013”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 15, 2013 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44510
- CBO publication date
- August 15, 2013
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 851, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/s/851
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 113-107 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Veterans' Affairs Committee on September 17, 2013.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 17, 2013 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/113/SRPT/107
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 851, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/s/851
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
0df245181ccb0740066ba2cb49de79e1e492dec1aaa732484aa87d048c5ea7d9
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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
2 cosponsors — 2 Democrats
0 of 2 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.