To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide timely equitable relief to an individual who suffers a loss based on an administrative error by the Secretary, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7971.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VAN ORDEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 63, April 12, 2024, Page H2367):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 3 The single subject of this legislation is: To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide timely equitable relief to an individual who suffers a loss based on an administrative error by the Secretary, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 12, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

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  302 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7971, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7971

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 11, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  27c36e24b1977d2d0b189ab71fd70a82def5566106fa7615eb8d27eaeb8e73b2

  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 June 11, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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