House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Survivor Benefits Fairness Act
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to adjust the effective date of certain reductions and discontinuances of compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, and pension under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Sponsor: Rep. Bryan Steil R-WIWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 18, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 18, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2228.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STEIL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 50, March 18, 2025, Page H1173):Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 18, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2228, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2228
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 19, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
5d04b13ab46aa85215415406c9fcb311280b0099b0de136e1277a9d1af30a00d
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 19, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
6 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 4 Democrats
4 of 6 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Susie Lee (D-NV), Chris Pappas (D-NH), David Valadao (R-CA), Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Bryan Steil.
- H.R. 7008 (119th) Stop Insider Trading Act
- H.R. 4430 (119th) Expanding WKSI Eligibility Act
- H.R. 8364 (119th) To amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize the increase of the retirement age in the United States Capitol Police.
- H.Res. 198 (119th) Providing for the expenses of certain committees of the House of Representatives in the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress.
- H.Res. 308 (119th) Dismissing the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the Fourteenth Congressional District of Florida.
- H.Res. 309 (119th) Dismissing the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the Twenty-eighth Congressional District of Texas.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.