House bill · 109th Congress · Did not become law
Medicare Informed Choice Act of 2005
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 22, 2005
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 7, 2005 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3861.
- Congress.gov noteOn 12/16/2005, a motion was filed to discharge the Rules Committee from consideration of H.Res.585 a resolution providing for the consideration of H.R.3861. A discharge petition requires 218 signatures for further action. (Discharge Petition No. 109-10: text with signatures.)Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
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- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3861, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/3861
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 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 December 5, 2025). 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
174 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 171 Democrats, 1 independent
2 of 174 cosponsors (1%) are from the other party.
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Thomas Allen (D-ME), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Joe Baca (D-CA), Brian Baird (D-WA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), John Barrow (D-GA), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Howard Berman (D-CA), Marion Berry (D-AR), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Dan Boren (D-OK), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Rick Boucher (D-VA), Robert Brady (D-PA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Lois Capps (D-CA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), Russ Carnahan (D-MO), Julia Carson (D-IN), Ed Case (D-HI), Ben Chandler (D-KY), Wm. Clay (D-MO) and 144 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 109th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Pete Stark.
- H.Res. 11 (109th) Expressing profound sorrow on the occasion of the death of the Honorable Robert T. Matsui, a Representative from the State of California.
- H.R. 2072 (109th) Medicare Early Access Act of 2005
- H.R. 791 (109th) Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act of 2005
- H.R. 3055 (109th) MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2005
- H.R. 5348 (109th) Medicare Anesthesiology Teaching Funding Restoration Act of 2006
- H.R. 4520 (109th) Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2005
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 27, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.