Expanding America’s National Cemetery Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1413.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. McCLAIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 43, March 7, 2023, Page H1151):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to expand or otherwise modify an existing national cemetery to ensure that full military honors are provided at such cemetery.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 7, 2023 ↗

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  235 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1413, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1413

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c9669daa6054db1c8051be2df46003313695dcfcfbca21f761ac6972b0cb220a

  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 June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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