House bill · 107th Congress · Did not become law
Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of 2002
Sponsor: Rep. Nancy Johnson R-CTWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 18, 2002
- Committee actionJun 19, 2002
- Passed HouseJun 28, 2002 · 221–208
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 15, 2002 — Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 493.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4954.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4954, Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of 2002 (As Approved by the Ways and Means Committee)” on June 24, 2002. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on June 19, 2002</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 24, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13768
- CBO publication date
- June 24, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4954, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4954
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c9920c19b27da8d4bd6b2864add8670038795cf8a29d86f5ec00f973f667c25f
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4954, Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of 2002 (As Approved by the Ways and Means Committee)” on June 24, 2002. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on June 19, 2002”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 24, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13768
- CBO publication date
- June 24, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4954, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4954
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c9920c19b27da8d4bd6b2864add8670038795cf8a29d86f5ec00f973f667c25f
PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 107-539 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on June 27, 2002.Source: Congress.gov, reported June 27, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/107/HRPT/539
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4954, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4954
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c9920c19b27da8d4bd6b2864add8670038795cf8a29d86f5ec00f973f667c25f
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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
32 cosponsors — 32 Republicans
0 of 32 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Charles Bass (R-NH), Michael Bilirakis (R-FL), John Boozman (R-AR), Ed Bryant (R-TN), Ander Crenshaw (R-FL), Jo Ann Davis (R-VA), Jennifer Dunn (R-WA), Phil English (R-PA), Ernest Fletcher (R-KY), George Gekas (R-PA), Porter Goss (R-FL), James Greenwood (R-PA), Amo Houghton (R-NY), Ric Keller (R-FL), Mark Kennedy (R-MN), Ron Lewis (R-KY), Jim McCrery (R-LA), Scott McInnis (R-CO), Charles Pickering (R-MS), Rob Portman (R-OH), Paul Ryan (R-WI), E. Shaw (R-FL), John Shimkus (R-IL), Rob Simmons (R-CT), John Sullivan (R-OK), W. Tauzin (R-LA), Lee Terry (R-NE), William Thomas (R-CA), Fred Upton (R-MI), David Vitter (R-LA) and 2 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 107th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nancy Johnson.
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- H.R. 3391 (107th) Medicare Regulatory and Contracting Reform Act of 2001
- H.Res. 496 (107th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association should…
- H.R. 2768 (107th) Medicare Regulatory and Contracting Reform Act of 2001
- H.R. 4889 (107th) Patient Safety Improvement Act of 2002
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.