To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that a member of the Armed Forces, granted a general discharge under honorable conditions on the sole basis that such member failed to obey a lawful order to receive a vaccine for COVID-19, is eligible for certain educational assistance administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6671.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6671, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that a member of the Armed Forces, granted a general discharge under honorable conditions on the sole basis that such member failed to obey a lawful order to receive a vaccine for COVID-19” on August 31, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 19, 2022”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 31, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58369

  CBO publication date

  August 31, 2022

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6671, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/6671

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  53bb213578510d883670b10879ff5328d147023a3c00a3f862fe790ded6f4728

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FITZGERALD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 26, February 9, 2022, Page H1115):
  clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 9, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  56 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6671, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/6671

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  53bb213578510d883670b10879ff5328d147023a3c00a3f862fe790ded6f4728

  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. 6671, last updated April 7, 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.