SCHEDULES Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7136.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCOTT FRANKLIN of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 17, January 30, 2024, Page H316):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a comprehensive standard for timing between referrals and appointments for care from the Department of Veterans Affairs and to submit a report with respect to that standard, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 30, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  319 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7136, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7136

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9b2f28381c7f26771ab9b733c365f4a97f496670e2ee2637887f8af24b2f1687

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7136, last updated December 5, 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.