Combat Veterans Pre-Enrollment Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8312.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. KIM of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 80, May 8, 2024, Page H2999):
  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: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program to permit certain members of the Armed Forces to pre-enroll in the system of annual patient enrollment established and operated under section 1705 of title 38, United States Code.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 8, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  631 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8312, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8312

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 20, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  32c1330c086631b6883d7c21d0e52adb1a04bc822b6e90af1c21e6752eccc5e0

  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 20, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8312, last updated December 20, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.