To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit appraisers approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make appraisals for purposes of chapter 37 of such title based on inspections performed by third parties.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3561.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3561, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to permit appraisers approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make appraisals for the purposes of chapter 37 of such title based on inspections performed by third parties” on October 27, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on October 12, 2017”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 27, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53260

  CBO publication date

  October 27, 2017

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3561, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3561

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4d5abdf855e7df71ffafb37bbd957399b2e7f8bfee57061ae7190d870fe48d55

• 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. ARRINGTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 128, July 28, 2017, Page H6578):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 28, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  55 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3561, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3561

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4d5abdf855e7df71ffafb37bbd957399b2e7f8bfee57061ae7190d870fe48d55

  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. 3561, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.