To authorize the President to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Marcelino Serna for acts of valor as a private in the Army during World War I.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5521.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. ESCOBAR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 150, September 18, 2023, Page H4381):
  Article I, Section 8. The single subject of this legislation is: Veterans Affairs
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 18, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  81 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5521, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5521

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  67a74e579ba4c34d47c2359fef31a890b05b0033078a69958b8b426f63aa50b5

  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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