House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Service-Connected Suicide Compensation Act
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to automatically pay dependency and indemnity compensation to a survivor of a veteran with a service-connected mental disorder who dies by suicide.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 21, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 4, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2264.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LAWLER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 52, March 21, 2025, Page H1190):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the U.S. ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 21, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 56 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2264, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2264
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 24, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 December 24, 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
11 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 9 Democrats
9 of 11 cosponsors (82%) are from the other party.
Steve Cohen (D-TN), Herbert Conaway (D-NJ), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Patrick Ryan (D-NY), Eric Sorensen (D-IL), Eugene Vindman (D-VA), Robert Wittman (R-VA).
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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.