House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedMar 5, 2019
- Committee actionMar 12, 2020
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 12, 2020 — Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1527.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1527, Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act” on March 24, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on March 12, 2020”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 24, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56287
- CBO publication date
- March 24, 2020
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1527, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1527
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
583308eff4591a3a25bf21897b8b07c5533500ce112c0a40e9162c491b26de70
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 39, March 5, 2019, Page H2369):Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 5, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1527, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1527
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
583308eff4591a3a25bf21897b8b07c5533500ce112c0a40e9162c491b26de70
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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1527, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
16 cosponsors — 10 Republicans, 6 Democrats
6 of 16 cosponsors (38%) are from the other party.
Andy Barr (R-KY), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Tom Cole (R-OK), J. Correa (D-CA), Joe Cunningham (D-SC), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Frank Lucas (R-OK), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Bill Posey (R-FL), Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-AS), Jason Smith (R-MO), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), W. Steube (R-FL), Lee Zeldin (R-NY).
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 20, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.