House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJan 22, 2015
- Committee actionMay 21, 2015
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 21, 2015 — Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 475.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 475, GI Bill Processing Improvement and Quality Enhancement Act of 2015” on August 26, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on May 21, 2015”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 26, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50781
- CBO publication date
- August 26, 2015
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 475, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/475
- 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 links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WENSTRUP, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 11, January 22, 2015, Page H533):Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 22, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 475, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/475
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 12, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a6e28e23f0b22044ce71e634a0c95c6602ae2c3e2c9c92f7ea2c9bd9e11d019a
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 committee report (as of August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 475, last updated August 12, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 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
3 cosponsors — 3 Republicans
0 of 3 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Joseph Heck (R-NV), Walter Jones (R-NC), Jackie Walorski (R-IN).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Brad Wenstrup.
- H.R. 3016 (114th) Veterans Employment, Education, and Healthcare Improvement Act
- H.R. 474 (114th) Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Programs Reauthorization Act of 2015
- H.R. 5178 (114th) Veterans Success on Campus Act of 2016
- H.R. 4632 (114th) CT Colonography Screening for Colorectal Cancer Act of 2016
- H.R. 4486 (114th) Do Your Job Act
- H.R. 5526 (114th) To improve the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to hire and retain physicians and other employees of the Department of…
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 22, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.