House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Meeting the Inpatient Health Care Needs of Far South Texas Veterans Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 4, 2015
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 19, 2015 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1294.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HINOJOSA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 37, March 4, 2015, Page H1616):Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the constitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 4, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 50 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1294, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1294
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 12, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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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
7 cosponsors — 7 Democrats
0 of 7 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Al Green (D-TX), Gene Green (D-TX), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Marc Veasey (D-TX), Filemon Vela (D-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ruben Hinojosa.
- H.Res. 505 (114th) Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
- H.R. 1958 (114th) Year-Round Pell Grant Restoration Act
- H.R. 1959 (114th) College Options for DREAMers Act
- H.R. 1957 (114th) Pell Grant Cost of Tuition Adjustment Act
- H.R. 1956 (114th) Pell Grant Protection Act
- H.R. 3721 (114th) Affordable College Textbook Act
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.