House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Military and Veteran Caregiver Services Improvement Act of 2017
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 9, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 5, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1472.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LANGEVIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 41, March 9, 2017, Page H2020):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 9, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1472, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1472
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 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
94 cosponsors — 12 Republicans, 81 Democrats, 1 independent
12 of 94 cosponsors (13%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Robert Brady (D-PA), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), David Cicilline (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Susan Davis (D-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Daniel Donovan (R-NY), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Denny Heck (D-WA), Brian Higgins (D-NY) and 64 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.