To amend title 38, United States Code, to require that domiciliary facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs and State homes that provide housing to veterans have resident advocates.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1413.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOTTHEIMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 32, February 18, 2025, Page H723):
  Article I, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 18, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1413, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1413

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 13, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  de3e59faa22c5b9909aa4962bfee0b299be0b0033bec834b608d347638284237

  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 June 13, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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