Improving Transition Programs for All Veterans Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5229.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5229, Improving Transition Programs for All Veterans Act” on May 23, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on May 18, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 23, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51612

  CBO publication date

  May 23, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5229, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5229

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  58bbc7cee3c098c1dc65327f7f56bb275a59b113d2e098507fdd11874e87f8e0

• 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. TAKANO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 76, May 13, 2016, Page H2386):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 13, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  62 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5229, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5229

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  58bbc7cee3c098c1dc65327f7f56bb275a59b113d2e098507fdd11874e87f8e0

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5229, last updated April 7, 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.