A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make permanent and codify the pilot program for use of contract physicians for disability examinations, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1533.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1533, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make permanent and codify the pilot program for use of contract physicians for disability examinations, and for other purposes” on October 7, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on July 30, 2025”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 7, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61802

  CBO publication date

  October 7, 2025

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1533, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/1533

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  10daf80a7acf4e951126af228187cb45278530bc505416b549bf9c44d77a0014

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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of March 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1533, last updated March 19, 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.