Toxic Exposure Fund Improvement Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7738.

• 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. 170, No. 49, March 20, 2024, Page H1295):
  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 structure of the Department of Veterans Affairs budget.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 20, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  438 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7738, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7738

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6ac2c59d39c7fbb23cd958b4c4bb050b91f2ff74427d191e9702c9719f5d2a15

  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 September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7738, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.