Modernizing Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Benefit Questionnaires Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4461.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4461, Modernization of Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Benefit Questionnaires Act” on August 18, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 26, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 18, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59479

  CBO publication date

  August 18, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4461, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4461

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9f10fc454cf1b816cdc9d49d08386aefd94d482fa15ebf2bc5dad7f03e2e47c8

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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. LUTTRELL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 115, July 3, 2023, Page H3166):
  Under Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, Congress has the power ``to make all laws which shall be necessay and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or any Department or Officer thereof'' The single subject of this legislation is: Veteran Affairs
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 3, 2023 ↗

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  Statement length

  361 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4461, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4461

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9f10fc454cf1b816cdc9d49d08386aefd94d482fa15ebf2bc5dad7f03e2e47c8

  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 May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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