To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide timely equitable relief to an individual who suffers a loss based on an administrative error by the Secretary, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 984.

• 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
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 5, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  30 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 984, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/984

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 20, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e8b256ce316a058057d4b436e45050a3a36f2634e6993d6d5d3e84d8b8de5a21

  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 December 20, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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