Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 553.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 553, Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act” on June 25, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As introduced in the House of Representatives on January 15, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 25, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55393

  CBO publication date

  June 25, 2019

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 553, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/553

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0cef793e9a67cec97c7f3da5725ed78720d9b36bb8a7fdb17cb65d77ce24d2e8

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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. WILSON of South Carolina, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 8, January 15, 2019, Page H602):
  Article 1, Section 8. The Congress shall have the power to provide for the common defense.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 15, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  90 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 553, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/553

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0cef793e9a67cec97c7f3da5725ed78720d9b36bb8a7fdb17cb65d77ce24d2e8

  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 June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 553, last updated June 6, 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.