House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Education Relief and Restoration Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedNov 5, 2015
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 3, 2015 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3991.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TAKANO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 165, November 5, 2015, Page H8154):Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 5, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 62 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3991, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3991
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 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 December 5, 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
45 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 38 Democrats, 1 independent
6 of 45 cosponsors (13%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Susan Brooks (R-IN), Julia Brownley (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), John Garamendi (D-CA), Christopher Gibson (R-NY), Gene Green (D-TX), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Michael Honda (D-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), David Jolly (R-FL), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Ben Luján (D-NM), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Patrick Murphy (D-FL) and 15 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mark Takano.
- H.R. 2360 (114th) Career-Ready Student Veterans Act
- H.R. 5229 (114th) Improving Transition Programs for All Veterans Act
- H.R. 2025 (114th) Social Security and Medicare Parity Act of 2015
- H.R. 2193 (114th) VA Employee Fairness Act of 2015
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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.