To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the eligibility for beneficiary travel for veterans seeking treatment or care for military sexual trauma in specialized outpatient or residential programs at facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 642.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. WALORSKI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 17, February 2, 2015, Page H704):
  Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 2, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  68 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 642, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/642

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 2, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4e75ad3897a13e8d63694993759b8cef5fdf1bce87ecadfd22e79ba974c7557c

  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 January 2, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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