House bill · 109th Congress · Did not become law
Health Opportunity Patient Empowerment Act of 2006
Sponsor: Rep. Eric Cantor R-VAWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 21, 2006
- Committee actionSep 29, 2006
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 29, 2006 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 423.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6134.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6134, Health Opportunity Patient Empowerment Act of 2006” on September 28, 2006. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on September 27, 2006</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 28, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18181
- CBO publication date
- September 28, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6134, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/6134
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
485f6f159036bdcc184f08544cffb39aa58366377ae7934ff15ac16e094917a0
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6134, Health Opportunity Patient Empowerment Act of 2006” on September 28, 2006. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on September 27, 2006”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 28, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18181
- CBO publication date
- September 28, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6134, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/6134
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
485f6f159036bdcc184f08544cffb39aa58366377ae7934ff15ac16e094917a0
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. 109-704 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on September 29, 2006.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 29, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/HRPT/704
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6134, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/6134
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
485f6f159036bdcc184f08544cffb39aa58366377ae7934ff15ac16e094917a0
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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 6134, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 27, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
2 cosponsors — 2 Republicans
0 of 2 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 5262 (109th) Tax Free Health Savings Act of 2006
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.