To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit smoking on the premises of any facility of the Veterans Health Administration, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3700.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WENSTRUP, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 116, July 11, 2019, Page H5727):
  Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 11, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  45 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3700, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3700

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b0f7a50091d7edbcaeceffc811b1f396db5885dc74684bfffa16d4dc178aef60

  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 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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