House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
VA Health Center Management Stability and Improvement Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 16, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 3, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1131.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BOST, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 28, February 16, 2017, Page H1304):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 16, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1131, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1131
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 11, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
016ea63cc6aa0b9fbb27905b6e2846367dcf016864a2c17d68aeb159ae79d4eb
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 11, 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
14 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 8 Democrats
8 of 14 cosponsors (57%) are from the other party.
Jack Bergman (R-MI), Jim Costa (D-CA), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), Walter Jones (R-NC), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ), Tim Ryan (D-OH), Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH), Bill Shuster (R-PA), Eric Swalwell (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mike Bost.
- H.R. 2288 (115th) Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017
- H.R. 1329 (115th) Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2017
- H.R. 4958 (115th) Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2018
- H.R. 5864 (115th) VA Hospitals Establishing Leadership Performance Act
- H.R. 4811 (115th) Securing Our Schools Act of 2018
- H.R. 831 (115th) BALE Act of 2017
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.