Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8371.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 8371, Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act” on November 21, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As passed by the House of Representatives on November 18, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 21, 2024 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61039

  CBO publication date

  November 21, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8371, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8371

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0a47a98b23865758f03e3ca2dee81238a697dc3b554515fe747e3007339c56b3

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CISCOMANI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 83, May 14, 2024, Page H3204):
  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: Enhance and reform the delivery of services at the Department of Veterans Affairs and ensure that the men and women who have served have access to modern and good care.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 14, 2024 ↗

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  Statement length

  547 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8371, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8371

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0a47a98b23865758f03e3ca2dee81238a697dc3b554515fe747e3007339c56b3

  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 committee report (as of June 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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