To designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lafayette, Louisiana, as the "Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic".

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6963.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 4, January 7, 2026, Page H135):
  Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 7, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  45 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6963, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6963

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 29, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d0220f70bb55486f9085044ce8722fac307592e33d44d6fe692ba06a83d07342

  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 July 29, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6963, last updated July 29, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.