Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Accountability Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4398.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. EMMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 121, July 15, 2025, Page H3316):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 15, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  45 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4398, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4398

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  74052543dee5db136bd8c53b84adc365a1da35d7448bd6ee531f15057121fa08

  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 September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4398, last updated September 19, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 24, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.