VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 712.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 712, a bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a clinical trial of the effects of cannabis on certain health outcomes of adults with chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder, and for other purposes” on April 15, 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, April 15, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56329

  CBO publication date

  April 15, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 712, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/712

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e0bc58085fb2746aa95beb4821d6cdc41d7c6915518dee299588b9d18660d0f0

• 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. CORREA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 14, January 23, 2019, Page H1172):
  (1) The U.S. Constitution including Article 1, Section 8.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 23, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  57 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 712, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/712

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e0bc58085fb2746aa95beb4821d6cdc41d7c6915518dee299588b9d18660d0f0

  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. 712, 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.