To prohibit the Department of Defense from discharging or withholding pay or benefits from members of the National Guard based on COVID-19 vaccination status.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6178.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. BICE of Oklahoma, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 212, December 8, 2021, Page H7556):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clauses 12, 14, 15, and 16
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 8, 2021 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  48 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6178, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/6178

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 15, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  ec1f37cf041eb1d1c201a38c9d04487b735beb94506fa492deb790202f439986

  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 January 15, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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