To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to complete a study and report on retention practices with respect to non-clinical personnel at health care facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10840.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BILIRAKIS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 162, October 19, 2026, Page H6052):
  Article I Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 19, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  19 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 10840, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/10840

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  October 21, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  October 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  310bbb754178e0a82de9fcc0666677a640975ee18d388da3863243de106fbb54

  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 October 21, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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