House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
GUARD Veterans’ Health Care Act
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, and the Social Security Act to permit recovery from the Department of Veterans Affairs of costs from Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription drug plans and to modify the authority for recovery by the United States of reasonable charges for certain care or services furnished to veterans for non-service-connected disabilities, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Lloyd Doggett D-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 23, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 3, 2025 — Committee Hearings Held
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4077.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DOGGETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 107, June 23, 2025, Page H2889):Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 69 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4077, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4077
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
7 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 3 Democrats
4 of 7 cosponsors (57%) are from the other party.
Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Troy Downing (R-MT), John Joyce (R-PA), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Gregory Murphy (R-NC), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Mark Takano (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lloyd Doggett.
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- H.R. 2045 (119th) Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2025
- H.R. 930 (119th) Stop the Wait Act of 2025
- H.R. 1918 (119th) Farewell to Foam Act of 2025
- H.R. 609 (119th) Assuring Medicare’s Promise Act of 2025
Related bills
- S. 2145 (119th) GUARD Veterans’ Health Care ActIdentical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.