Protecting Families of Fallen Servicemembers Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4356.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4356, Protecting Families of Fallen Servicemembers Act” on November 12, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on October 29, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 12, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55842

  CBO publication date

  November 12, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4356, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4356

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  615f23264b418ba149880f6a27ff44c67f80fecbc138d8feb479bfa774c03bfa

• 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. HARDER of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 149, September 17, 2019, Page H7754):
  U.S. Const. art. I, sec. 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 17, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  26 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4356, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4356

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  615f23264b418ba149880f6a27ff44c67f80fecbc138d8feb479bfa774c03bfa

  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. 4356, 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.