To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish the Advisory Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Veterans.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4845.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4845, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish the Advisory Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Veterans” on December 1, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on November 4, 2021”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 1, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57658

  CBO publication date

  December 1, 2021

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4845, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/4845

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  92c010ee0a3a92819fe5261a0bb98463bb81fce91e82230735e139491d31cbc1

• 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. PAPPAS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 133, July 29, 2021, Page H4295):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution states that ``Congress shall have the authority to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 29, 2021 ↗

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  Statement length

  347 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4845, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/4845

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  92c010ee0a3a92819fe5261a0bb98463bb81fce91e82230735e139491d31cbc1

  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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