VA Billing Accountability Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5981.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMUCKER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 187, November 7, 2025, Page H4586):
  Section VIII of Article I of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 7, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  50 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5981, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5981

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  5ed512cbc54572acb9d9bdfd20017775164f54226160901f571d8cd193a3881f

  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 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5981, last updated December 11, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.