Department of Veterans Affairs Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Processing Claims Improvement Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3718.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEGUSE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 89, May 25, 2023, Page H2641):
  Article 1 , Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to take certain actions to improve the processing by the Department of Veterans Affairs of claims for disability compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 25, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  295 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3718, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3718

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6b8363c258e512dbfc01a66417ff2f914e39e67b08bf2166553ca4a3476fa22d

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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