To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit smoking on the premises of any facility of the Veterans Health Administration, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2398.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WENSTRUP, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 57, March 29, 2023, Page H1660):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Veterans Health
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 29, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  104 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2398, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2398

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  768b471bd964968895cd6f33a376307cbdf74473346e81868fbcbffe827032c1

  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 July 24, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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