Modern GI Bill Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 393.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STEUBE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 12, January 17, 2023, Page H245):
  To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and Post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the…
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 17, 2023 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 393, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/393

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 12, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3ece9c9315be5a92a88bcad87b04e58cc3636738406262b6f050b661eeaf86bb

  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 12, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 393, last updated June 12, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.