Protecting Veterans Claim Options Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5559.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BOST, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 151, September 19, 2023, Page H4408):
  Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, which states ``[t]he Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States'' The single subject of this legislation is: The rights of veterans and survivors to pursue claims for VA benefits and to submit evidence in support of their claims.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 19, 2023 ↗

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  499 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5559, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5559

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  314f5ff8a179b8d086d4e0ffb44f0763c8df63089248a9da9fe8d0e907099b4f

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

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5559, last updated May 27, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.