House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Veterans Legal Support Act of 2024
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 21, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 22, 2024 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8805.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. NORTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 105, June 21, 2024, Page H4120):clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would allow the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to provide support to law school clinical programs that provide pro bono legal and support services to veterans.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 21, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 273 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8805, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8805
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- November 12, 2024
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
29039a125ac45d2c98556013bc3dc3fa269f2260c6890285f7166dfc04ff9558
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 November 12, 2024). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
0 of 1 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.