Veteran Overmedication and Suicide Prevention Act of 2025

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 136.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BUCHANAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H40):
  Article 1 Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct an independent review of the deaths of certain veterans by suicide, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  209 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 136, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/136

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d49bb4d62d2c7ee3a84daed7cd1b92a56679f9c5d926d6a1d8bb489d54314ea6

  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 January 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 136, last updated January 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.