VA FOIA Reform Act of 2020

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7163.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7163, VA FOIA Reform Act of 2020” on November 18, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on September 17, 2020”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 18, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56779

  CBO publication date

  November 18, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7163, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/7163

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8f487335a902abf2fe782defc576d910f143d6e57921eeff44c4299eb52a3d0a

• 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. CISNEROS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 108, June 11, 2020, Page H2390):
  Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 11, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  46 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7163, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/7163

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8f487335a902abf2fe782defc576d910f143d6e57921eeff44c4299eb52a3d0a

  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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7163, last updated April 7, 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.