Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserves Tuition Fairness Act of 2025

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 983.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VAN ORDEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 24, February 5, 2025, Page H505):
  Article I, Section 8, clause 3 Article I, Section 8, clause 14
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 5, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  62 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 983, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/983

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 11, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  43a6e1b5516cd093a19314b8f60173ad3089efb6f0c80a11833e4b9e8a10ddaf

  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 11, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 983, last updated July 11, 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.