Veteran Prescription Safety Improvement Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9178.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ZINKE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 121, July 25, 2024, Page H4951):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve access of health care providers of the Department of Veterans Affairs to prescription drug monitoring programs, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 25, 2024 ↗

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  260 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9178, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9178

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 20, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1f36d99f909b1eb27ca279b3ea9362e08d8dd8495faeed851c07b0fd230d72ed

  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.

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