House bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
Patients' Bill of Rights Act of 1999
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 19, 1999
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 24, 1999 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 358.
- Congress.gov noteOn 6/23/1999, a motion was filed to discharge the Rules Committee from consideration of H.Res.197 a resolution providing for the consideration of H.R.358. A discharge petition requires 218 signatures for further action. (Discharge Petition No. 106-3: text with signatures.)Source: Congress.gov, record updated June 3, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
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- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 358, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/358
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 3, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of June 3, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
182 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 179 Democrats, 1 independent
1 of 182 cosponsors (1%) are from the other party.
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Thomas Allen (D-ME), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Brian Baird (D-WA), John Baldacci (D-ME), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), James Barcia (D-MI), Thomas Barrett (D-WI), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Ken Bentsen (D-TX), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Howard Berman (D-CA), Marion Berry (D-AR), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), David Bonior (D-MI), Robert Borski (D-PA), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Rick Boucher (D-VA), Robert Brady (D-PA), Corrine Brown (D-FL), George Brown (D-CA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Lois Capps (D-CA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Julia Carson (D-IN), Donna Christensen (D-VI) and 152 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 106th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. John Dingell.
- H.R. 2821 (106th) North American Wetlands Conservation Council Expansion Act of 1999
- H.Con.Res. 60 (106th) Expressing the sense of the Congress that a series of commemorative postage stamps should be issued honoring veterans service…
- H.R. 4927 (106th) FamilyCare Act of 2000
- H.R. 830 (106th) Imported Food Safety Act of 1999
- H.R. 780 (106th) Passenger Entitlement and Competition Enhancement Act of 1999
- H.R. 5551 (106th) Basic Access to Secure Health Insurance Coverage Health Plan (BASIC Health Plan) Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 28, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.