House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Veterans Bill of Rights Act
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to issue to a veteran a Veterans Bill of Rights, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedNov 10, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 10, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6017.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VAN DREW, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 190, November 10, 2025, Page H4591):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 10, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6017, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6017
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
20a440123ff659dffdc1adbdb4a434159a66c12296f3a52c6fca1be6fcc04646
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 January 8, 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
3 cosponsors — 3 Democrats
3 of 3 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Nellie Pou (D-NJ), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
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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.