House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Carlton H. Ingram Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs schedule for rating disabilities, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 24, 2026
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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Latest action: Mar 24, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8066.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TRAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 55, March 24, 2026, Page H2676):Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 24, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 123 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8066, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8066
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 27, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
0 of 1 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Derek Tran.
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- H.Res. 1235 (119th) Recognizing the 51st anniversary of Black April and the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.
- H.Con.Res. 50 (119th) Recognizing the importance of the Vietnamese Heritage Flag.
- H.R. 6678 (119th) Senior Legal Hotline Act of 2025
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Sponsor’s state and district
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