Safeguarding VA’s Healthcare Workforce Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9426.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BOST, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 135, August 30, 2024, Page H5021):
  Article 1, 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: This bill would allow VA to contract out to fill empty shifts at VA Medical Facilities
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 30, 2024 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9426, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9426

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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  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 May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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