Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
In short
Luria's campaign says she helped pass the PACT Act and would cut red tape at the VA. Kiggans's campaign says she fought for the VA's largest-ever budget and chairs a veterans oversight subcommittee. Staten's campaign lists no position on the pages checked; Baker's says he will judge himself by whether military readiness improves. On the record, three of Luria's four veterans' cost-of-living bills became law; Kiggans's COPE Act passed the House and is not law.
Campaign positions
Her plan says she served on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and was instrumental in passing the PACT Act, introduced and passed the Gold Star Families Act, and championed legislation providing three cost-of-living increases to veterans, and that she will cut red tape in the VA system and reverse cuts she attributes to DOGE.
Her campaign says she fought to fully fund the Department of Veterans Affairs and give it its largest-ever budget in her first term, chairs the Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and that her first standalone bill to pass the House was the COPE Act on caregivers' mental health resources and safety at VA facilities.
No stated position on veterans or the military. The Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025 names no defence, shipyard or veterans' policy, and his FEC filings carry only his own statements that the committee has raised and spent nothing. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished. The Virginia Mercury guide, read October 12, 2026, gives a health-care position but none on this issue; the source notes below retain the other access limits.
His platform says the district has more veterans and military families per square mile than almost anywhere in America and that they are being failed on readiness, and that he will measure his own performance by whether readiness improves.
Evidence timeline
official action
She introduced a Pay Our Troops Act four times from 2023 to 2025, and none left committee or became law.
Her campaign says she introduced and championed legislation to make sure U.S. troops are paid if the government shuts down. She has introduced a Pay Our Troops Act four times: H.R. 5641 on September 21, 2023, H.R. 9699 on September 19, 2024, H.R. 1932 on March 6, 2025, and H.R. 5401 on September 16, 2025. All four were referred to the Committee on Appropriations; the first also drew her own introductory remarks a week later, on September 28, 2023. None was reported out of committee, voted on, or enacted. Limit: The claim is to have introduced and championed the legislation, and that is what the record shows, four times over. It is not a claim of passage and none of the four passed. Whether troops were in fact paid during any shutdown depends on other measures this card does not read.
official action
The House passed her COPE Act by voice vote in December 2023, before any other bill she sponsored; it stalled in the Senate and is not law.
Her campaign says her first standalone bill to pass the House was the COPE Act. H.R. 3581, the COPE Act, which she sponsored on May 22, 2023 with no cosponsors at introduction and five who joined later, three Democrats and two Republicans, passed the House on December 4, 2023 on a motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended, agreed to by voice vote. No bill she sponsored had any House-passage action before that date; the next two came the following September, H.R. 8108 on the 23rd and H.R. 5490 on the 24th. The COPE Act was received in the Senate the following day and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, where it had no further action. It is not law. Limit: The claim is about House passage and House passage is what the record shows, first among her own bills. The bill is not law. Whether it would do what the sentence says it would is a question about the bill's text, which this card does not assess. The check reads the action history of all 78 bills and resolutions she has sponsored in the 118th and 119th Congresses.
official action
She sponsored four veterans' cost-of-living bills, and three of them became law, in 2019, 2020 and 2022.
Her plan says she championed legislation that gave veterans three cost-of-living increases. She sponsored four Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Acts across the 116th and 117th Congresses, and three became law: H.R. 1200 as Public Law 116-58 on September 26, 2019, H.R. 6168 as Public Law 116-178 on October 20, 2020, and H.R. 7846 as Public Law 117-191 on October 10, 2022. The fourth, H.R. 3909 of 2021, was referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and went no further. Limit: The number in the claim is the number in the record: three of her four cost-of-living bills became law. The check reads the official titles and action histories of all 45 bills and resolutions she sponsored in the 116th and 117th Congresses. What a given increase was worth to any veteran is set by the rate the act adopts and is not assessed here, and she left office on January 3, 2023, so nothing after that date is hers. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.
official action
Her bill never got a House vote, but the relief it sought became law through a broader change in a December 2019 spending act she voted for.
Her plan says she introduced and passed the Gold Star Families Act to give Gold Star families tax relief. The bill she introduced was H.R. 2481, the Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act, on May 2, 2019. It drew 172 cosponsors and its only recorded action is the referral to the Committee on Ways and Means on the day of introduction; the House never voted on it. Its identical Senate companion, S. 1370, passed the Senate without amendment by unanimous consent on May 21, 2019 and was then ordered held at the House desk, where the House never took it up; no version of the bill became law. The harm it addressed was ended seven months later in another bill, by a different and much broader instrument than the one she proposed. Her bill would have amended section 1(g)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code to treat military survivor benefits as earned income, a change confined to those benefits. Division O, title V, section 501 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 instead struck paragraph (4) of section 1(j) outright, repealing the trust-rate treatment for every child's unearned income rather than reclassifying survivor benefits; the amendment her bill proposed was never enacted, and no subparagraph (D) was added to section 1(g)(4). She voted for that act on December 17, 2019 (Roll Call 689, agreed to 297 to 120), and it became Public Law 116-94 on December 20, 2019. Limit: Her bill never got a House vote, though its Senate twin passed the Senate. The relief became law in a 2019 spending act she voted for, through a broader change. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.
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Elaine Luria for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Read in an Internet Archive snapshot: elaineforcongress.com returns HTTP 403 to automated readers. Snapshot of 2026-08-03. This is the campaign's only platform page: the site's own navigation links to /about, /issues and /news all return 404 in the archive's crawls, the most recent on 2026-08-03. The page carries no publication date.
candidate statement
For: Elaine G. Luria: campaign position; Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated record claim; Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated direction
Kiggans for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Her campaign's platform page, read live on 2026-09-13. Fifteen headed sections, from The Cost of Living to Protection of Women's Sports. It carries no publication date, and some passages date from her first term, including "In just over a year" and references to holding the Biden Administration accountable.
candidate statement
For: Jen A. Kiggans: campaign position; Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Office of Representative Jen Kiggans · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Her office's own page: she represents Virginia's Second Congressional District, served ten years as a Navy helicopter pilot, and sits on the Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs and Natural Resources Committees, chairing the Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
official office record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: campaign position
Ballotpedia · Published Dec 4, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Read live on 2026-09-13, HTTP 200. Its campaign-themes section carries Candidate Connection survey answers in his own words, which Ballotpedia's own footnote dates to information he submitted on December 4, 2025. He gives three campaign messages, "Purpose Over Politics", "Giving Hampton Roads a Candidate from the 2nd Congressional District to Represent the 2nd Congressional District." and "The Face of The Political Future in Hampton Roads"; names "Affordability, Public Safety and Equal Opportunity" as the areas of public policy he is personally passionate about; answers "Fighter. Hard Worker." on the legacy he wants to leave; answers "Yes. Keeps the seat fresh or steady pending voters choice." on whether two years is the right term length; and names Barack Obama as the representative he would model himself after. The answers name no policy on health care, immigration, the Bay, reproductive rights, veterans, Medicare or Social Security. Ballotpedia states it may edit a survey answer and marks any edit in brackets; none of these answers carries a bracket. The page's contact block lists one social account for him, a Facebook profile, and no X or Instagram account. Ballotpedia publishes the answers and is not their author.
candidate statement
For: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten: campaign position
Virginia Department of Elections · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Four candidates for the 2nd District: Elaine G. Luria (Democratic, incumbent No), Jen A. Kiggans (Republican, incumbent Yes), Geral D. "Bishop" Staten (Independent, incumbent No) and J. Matt Baker (Independent, incumbent No). Its Campaign Website column names elaineforcongress.com, www.jenforcongress.com and mattbakerindependent.com and is empty for Staten; his row gives a Yahoo campaign mailbox and a Suffolk post-office box that match the contact on his most recent FEC statement of organization. When read on September 13, 2026 the page's downloadable list was named 2026-November-Federal-Offices-Candidate-List-(rev-9-8-2026).xlsx; that file has since been replaced and now returns 404.
official election record
For: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten: campaign position
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Principal campaign committee of FEC candidate H6VA02222, first statement of organization filed 2025-12-13, the candidate himself as treasurer. It has filed no report of receipts and disbursements for the 2026 cycle: its filings are three Form 1 statements of organization and four Form 99 miscellaneous submissions, and the FEC carries no cycle totals for it. All three Form 1s leave the committee's website field blank, and the most recent, received 2026-08-13, gives a Suffolk post-office box and a Yahoo mailbox as the committee's only contact. The four Form 99 texts, filed 2026-01-27, 2026-03-31, 2026-04-10 and 2026-07-02, are his own words on file with the commission, and each says only that the committee has neither raised nor spent anything and stays under the $5,000 threshold. No filing carries a platform, a website or a social account.
fec filing
For: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten: campaign position
Facebook · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Read on 2026-09-13 in an ordinary signed-in browser session, by a person at The Stated Record and not by any automated reader. How it was read is part of the record, because a later checker cannot repeat the read unaided: a request from the desk on 2026-09-13 was redirected to Facebook's sign-in page, and the Internet Archive holds no snapshot of this profile at any timestamp, so there is no reachable copy to check this reading against. That is why this note records the session and not only the finding: a later reader whose own request is refused has not found a gap in the record, and none of this material is to be recorded as unverifiable, or quietly dropped, on the strength of that refusal. No wall was bypassed; the profile was opened by signing in as any reader may. The address is not a guess: Ballotpedia's contact block for him links it, and Virginia Scope quoted posts from it on 2026-09-04. The profile is listed as a "Public figure" with 6.8K followers, and its own self-reported details are "Lives in Suffolk, Virginia", "From Suffolk, Virginia" and the schools "Nansemond River High" and "CCBC"; the desk carries those as what the profile states and has verified none of them. Its bio is his own words in full: "Future Congressman. I’m Running for A Seat In The U.S House • VA-02. #Independent ✅⭐️ #HistoryMade". The profile carries exactly one outbound link, labelled twitter.com, whose address resolves to https://twitter.com/, the bare homepage with no username, so his own profile links no X account and no Instagram account. What the session could read is this profile and its Reels tab: his ordinary post timeline never rendered on any route tried, the profile itself and /posts alike, across repeated scrolls and reloads, and remains unread.
social profile
For: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten: campaign position
Facebook · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Read on 2026-09-13 in the same signed-in browser session as the profile, by a person at The Stated Record and not by any automated reader: the tab sits behind Facebook's sign-in wall and the Internet Archive holds no capture of it at any timestamp, so a later checker cannot repeat the read unaided. No wall was bypassed. The tab listed ten reels, with view counts of 335, 275, 371, 1K, 620, 7.1K, 115, 867, 605 and 509 as Facebook displays them. Ten is what the session saw and is not a count of every reel he has posted, and no date was visible on any of them, so this desk assigns none. None of the ten states a policy position. Three carry the same ballot-access text card, one is a screenshot of a third-party fundraising table, and the most-viewed is a funeral service; each of those three findings is recorded as its own source. This bounds what these ten reels carry and supports no claim that his Facebook account carries no policy anywhere: his ordinary post timeline never rendered and is unread.
social profile
Facebook · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Read on 2026-09-13 in the same signed-in browser session as the profile, by a person at The Stated Record and not by any automated reader: the reels sit behind Facebook's sign-in wall with no Internet Archive capture at any timestamp, so a later checker cannot repeat the read unaided. No wall was bypassed. Three of the ten reels on his Reels tab carry the same full-bleed text card over a map of Virginia's 2nd district. Its text in full, with its four line breaks shown here as slashes, is ATTENTION VOTERS ‼️🚨 / IF YOU LIVE IN THE GREEN AREA / "BISHOP" STATEN IS ON YOUR / BALLOT 🗳️✅🔥 #CONGRESS, and nothing else. It is cited to the Reels tab because no address for the individual reels was recorded. No date was visible on any of the three and the desk assigns none. This is his own public assertion that he is on the ballot in this contest, and it is carried as that and as nothing more. The state's own candidate list for the November 3, 2026 general election carries him in this race. This desk makes no claim about his ballot qualification beyond what the state's own candidate list shows, and that list carries him in all eight of the district's localities (va-elections-2026-all-offices).
candidate statement
Facebook · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Read on 2026-09-13 in the same signed-in browser session as the profile, by a person at The Stated Record and not by any automated reader: the reel sits behind Facebook's sign-in wall with no Internet Archive capture at any timestamp, so a later checker cannot repeat the read unaided. No wall was bypassed. One of the ten reels on his Reels tab is a screenshot of a fundraising table he did not compile, captioned in his own words "THE STAGE IS SET 🗳️✅". The table is headed "US Representative - District 2" and "Nov 3 2026" over two columns, "Candidate" and "Raised", and its rows for this desk's candidates read Kiggans, Jen (R) $5,954,338; Luria, Elaine (D) $4,660,386; and Staten, Bishop (I) N/A. It is recorded as a third-party artefact he shared and not as a roll of the field, for two reasons. First, it lists two further names that do not appear on the Virginia Department of Elections' candidate list for this contest; this desk does not repeat them and does not treat them as candidates in this race. Second, its figures do not sit where the filings do: the Kiggans figure matches the FEC's own computed 2026-cycle receipts total for her committee, $5,954,338.07, to the dollar, rather than the $6,021,834.53 her filing's own cycle-to-date column prints, which is the divergence this desk documents at fec-kiggans-12p and carries the column for, so the table cites the computed figure; the Luria figure is $590.70 above both her filing's column and the FEC's computed total for her committee, which agree with each other exactly; and the table shows no as-of date for its figures, so the desk cannot say what period or source they come from. The N/A against his own name is consistent with his committee's four Form 99 statements to the commission, each of which says it has neither raised nor spent anything. No date was visible on the reel and the desk assigns none.
social profile
For: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten: campaign position
Facebook · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Read on 2026-09-13 in the same signed-in browser session as the profile, by a person at The Stated Record and not by any automated reader: the reel sits behind Facebook's sign-in wall with no Internet Archive capture at any timestamp, so a later checker cannot repeat the read unaided. No wall was bypassed. This is the most-viewed of the ten reels on his Reels tab, which Facebook shows at 7.1K views, with 92 likes, 6 comments and 9 shares. Its caption, his own words, is "the promise still stands! [a name this desk does not repeat] preach a funeral DOWN TODAY! Much love to him 💪". What it shows is another person preaching at a funeral service. It is recorded for one reason: his account's own view counts put it far ahead of every other reel, and it is not a campaign statement, states no position, and is not Staten speaking. No date was visible on it and the desk assigns none.
social profile
For: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten: campaign position
Virginia Mercury · Reviewed Oct 12, 2026
Read October 12, 2026, after Jay-J opened the guide and approved the health-care wording. The guide describes expanded insurance coverage, billing transparency, transportation and other nonfinancial barriers, and the health-care workforce. No visible statement date was assigned. Access history: not read on September 13, 2026. The page answered HTTP 403 to the desk on 2026-09-13, and an Internet Archive index query for this URL, and for every page under the guide's contests path, returned no capture at any timestamp, so there is no archived copy to read instead. The guide's own index does list him in this contest, so this is the page expected to carry his answers. The desk did not attempt to work around the refusal; the source was then flagged for a human to open in an ordinary browser. That check is complete.
original reporting
For: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten: campaign position
Virginia Mercury · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The live index refuses automated readers like the rest of the site, so it was read in the Internet Archive snapshot of 2026-08-05. Under the heading for the 2nd District it lists five names, the four Democratic primary candidates and "(I) Bishop Staten", and links the contest page. The index carries the race summary and the candidate names only: no statement by any candidate, and nothing in Staten's words. It is cited to establish that the guide covers him, which made the unreadable contest page a documented gap on September 13. The contest page was read on October 12, 2026.
original reporting
For: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten: campaign position
Virginia Public Access Project · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Not read. On 2026-09-13 vpap.org answered HTTP 403 to the desk on every path tried, including the site root, and an Internet Archive listing of the domain holds no page for Staten at any timestamp. The desk did not attempt to work around the refusal; this source is flagged for a human to open in an ordinary browser.
original reporting
For: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten: campaign position
WAVY · Published Sep 11, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
A different office and a different election: Suffolk Commissioner of Revenue on the November 4, 2025 ballot, not this congressional race. WAVY's live site refuses automated readers, so this was read in the Internet Archive snapshot of 2025-09-30. The station states that it sent every candidate in that race a request for a bio and a list of questions and that the bio is unedited and is what the candidate submitted, so the answers are his own words. Its own form fields record his website as N/A and his party as Democratic. Nothing here is carried as a position in this congressional race. It is cited because it is his own words, because it independently dates the absence of a campaign website, and because the station's own November 3, 2026 voter guide could not be read at all: that page answered HTTP 403 on 2026-09-13 and its only Internet Archive capture, on 2026-09-06, is itself a 403.
candidate statement
For: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten: campaign position
Matt Baker for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
His platform page, read live on 2026-09-13: four numbered pillars covering the Constitution, Congress as a system, technology and energy, and Hampton Roads. It carries no publication date.
candidate statement
For: J. Matt Baker: campaign position
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2023-09-21 and referred to the Committee on Appropriations the same day. Its last recorded action is her own introductory remarks on 2023-09-28; it was not reported, voted on or enacted.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2024-09-19 and referred to the Committee on Appropriations; no further action.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2025-03-06 and referred to the Committee on Appropriations; no further action.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2025-09-16 and referred to the Committee on Appropriations; no further action. The fourth bill of this name she has introduced.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Published Dec 4, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2023-05-22 with no cosponsors. Its five cosponsors all joined later, so none was an original cosponsor: Houlahan on 2023-05-30, Mace on 2023-07-25, Pettersen on 2023-08-04, Moulton on 2023-09-26 and Lawler on 2023-10-11, three Democrats and two Republicans. Passed the House on 2023-12-04 on a motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended, agreed to by voice vote; received in the Senate on 2023-12-05 and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, where it had no further action. It is not law.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Published Nov 25, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2023-09-14; passed the House by voice vote on 2024-09-24, passed the Senate by voice vote on 2024-11-19, became Public Law 118-117 on 2024-11-25. It is the only bill she has sponsored that has become law, and it is the third of her bills to pass the House, after the COPE Act and H.R. 8108.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2024-04-23; agreed to by the House by voice vote on 2024-09-23, with the text printed at Congressional Record H5575, and received in the Senate on 2024-09-24. Cited here to date the second of her bills to pass the House, after the COPE Act and one day before H.R. 5490.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Two terms, the 118th and 119th Congresses, Virginia's 2nd District, since 2023; 78 sponsored bills and resolutions plus 5 floor amendments, and 700 cosponsorships. The member page refuses automated readers, so these were read on 2026-09-13 through the same publisher's API at api.congress.gov/v3/member/K000399.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Published Sep 26, 2019 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Luria, introduced 2019-02-13; passed the House by voice vote on 2019-05-21, passed the Senate by unanimous consent on 2019-09-12, became Public Law 116-58 on 2019-09-26.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Published Oct 20, 2020 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Luria, introduced 2020-03-10; passed the House by voice vote on 2020-05-28, passed the Senate by unanimous consent on 2020-09-24, became Public Law 116-178 on 2020-10-20.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Published Oct 10, 2022 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Luria, introduced 2022-05-19; passed the House under suspension on 2022-09-14, passed the Senate by voice vote on 2022-09-22, became Public Law 117-191 on 2022-10-10.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The fourth cost-of-living bill she sponsored, introduced 2021-06-15. Its last action is referral to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs on 2021-09-07; it did not pass.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Two terms, the 116th and 117th Congresses, Virginia's 2nd District, 2019 to 2023; 45 sponsored bills and resolutions plus 2 floor amendments, and 1,002 cosponsorships. The member page refuses automated readers, so these were read on 2026-09-13 through the same publisher's API at api.congress.gov/v3/member/L000591.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Luria, introduced 2019-05-02, 172 cosponsors. Its only recorded action is referral to the Committee on Ways and Means on the day of introduction; the House never voted on it. Congress.gov records S. 1370 as its identical Senate companion.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated direction
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The identical Senate companion to H.R. 2481, recorded by Congress.gov as related to it. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance on 2019-05-08; on 2019-05-21 the committee was discharged by unanimous consent, the Senate passed the bill without amendment by unanimous consent, with the text as passed printed at Congressional Record S2985, and the bill was ordered held at the desk by unanimous consent the same day. Congress.gov carries a short title as passed Senate for it. The House never voted on the measure in either form and no version of it became law.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated direction
U.S. Congress via Congress.gov · Published Dec 20, 2019 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The enrolled text of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020. The provision is in division O, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019, at title V, section 501, under a heading that runs across three lines of the enrolled text: title V, tax relief for certain children, section 501, modification of rules relating to the taxation of unearned income of certain children. Its operative sentence reads "Section 1(j) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking paragraph (4).", the paragraph that had taxed survivor benefits at trust rates. The division has to be named because the enrolled act carries 34 division headings and ten strings matching "sec. 501", so a citation to title V, section 501 alone does not identify one provision. The words "Gold Star" appear in the act only in an appropriation for the Congressional Gold Star Family Fellowship Program, and the word "kiddie" appears nowhere in it.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated direction
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Dec 17, 2019 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
On the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1865 with an amendment, agreed to 297 to 120 on 17 December 2019; Luria Yea. The Clerk labels the measure by its original vehicle, the National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated direction