House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
VA Flood Preparedness Act
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make certain contributions to local authorities to mitigate the risk of flooding on local property adjacent to medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Nancy Mace R-SCWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 26, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 28, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4188.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. MACE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 110, June 26, 2025, Page H3012):Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 26, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 41 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4188, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4188
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 31, 2026
- 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 March 31, 2026). 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nancy Mace.
- H.R. 5235 (119th) Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act of 2025
- H.R. 30 (119th) Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
- H.R. 872 (119th) Federal Contractor Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act of 2025
- H.R. 2985 (119th) Modernizing Government Technology Reform Act
- H.R. 5000 (119th) Cybersecurity Hiring Modernization Act
- H.R. 3455 (119th) Veterans Affairs Distributed Ledger Innovation Act of 2025
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.