Hire Veterans Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7490.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CRANE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 37, February 29, 2024, Page H773):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to establish a pilot program to identify and refer veterans for potential employment with Federal land management agencies, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 29, 2024 ↗

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  284 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7490, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7490

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2669ec5bb70ba47beaad1163275898663cc9e542058d5c4fad4d0475b14ef357

  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. 7490, 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.