House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
DOULA for VA Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedNov 9, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 27, 2023 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6331.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DAVIS of North Carolina, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 186, November 9, 2023, Page H5670):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18. The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program to furnish doula services to veterans.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 9, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 188 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6331, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6331
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
6 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 2 Democrats
4 of 6 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
Yadira Caraveo (D-CO), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), Daniel Kildee (D-MI), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Zachary Nunn (R-IA), Bill Posey (R-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Donald Davis.
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- H.R. 4518 (118th) CARE Act of 2023
- H.R. 5250 (118th) Flooding Prevention, Assessment, and Restoration Act of 2023
- H.Res. 122 (118th) Expressing support for States to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to close the Medicaid coverage gap.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.