To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain employment and reemployment rights to members of the National Guard who perform State active duty.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7785.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7785, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain employment and reemployment rights to members of the National Guard who perform State active duty” on November 13, 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 13, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56760

  CBO publication date

  November 13, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7785, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/7785

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  14ec2484260ee674e1b73180a38a8c65424fbf90ffb408a14386ff0c6d499e52

• 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. ROSE of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 131, July 24, 2020, Page H3859):
  Under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, Congress has the power ``to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or any Department or Officer thereof.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 24, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  304 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7785, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/7785

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  14ec2484260ee674e1b73180a38a8c65424fbf90ffb408a14386ff0c6d499e52

  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.

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