To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish an opioid antagonist to a veteran without requiring a prescription or copayment.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5999.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5999, Veteran Opioid Emergency Treatment Act” on July 2, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on May 14, 2026”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 2, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62521

  CBO publication date

  July 2, 2026

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5999, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5999

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  69a54682bf33152c93cb012920c6852ec63b3d8ac42fee75ab7991460ef318fc

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CONAWAY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 190, November 10, 2025, Page H4591):
  The General Welfare Clause found in Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 10, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  92 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5999, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5999

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  69a54682bf33152c93cb012920c6852ec63b3d8ac42fee75ab7991460ef318fc

  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 committee report (as of September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5999, 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.