To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish in the Department of Veterans Affairs an Advisory Committee on United States Outlying Areas and Freely Associated States, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3730.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SABLAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 97, June 4, 2021, Page H2693):
  Under Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 4, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  47 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3730, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/3730

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9a24664f37f5b2238c9669965dc972628ff16d67e13a02c1014a6134e1e98ff8

  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 CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3730, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.