To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transmit a veteran's history of opioid prescriptions to a Community Care health care provider.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8679.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COLLINS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 78, May 7, 2026, Page H3343):
  Article I, Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 7, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  20 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8679, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8679

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8667e53f9109cf8ec81046c8f5f6496f7c225c39c5ae8122be76e4d6b0ce15a5

  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 September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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