House bill · 111th Congress · Public Law 111-148
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Became law on Mar 23, 2010.
Sponsor: Rep. Charles Rangel D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 17, 2009
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseOct 8, 2009 · 416–0
- Passed SenateDec 24, 2009 · 60–39
- Resolving differencesMar 21, 2010
- To the PresidentMar 22, 2010
- Became lawMar 23, 2010
Latest action: Mar 23, 2010 — Became Public Law No: 111-148.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3590.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3590, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” on January 21, 2010. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the proposal to amend the bill to provide all states the same level of federal assistance for Medicaid that Nebraska would receive under the Senate-passed version</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 21, 2010 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41998
- CBO publication date
- January 21, 2010
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3590, 111th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/3590
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 26, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f32cfa74c9df900606bb4285135324b798e6b504a285591980e05ed85de0cc27
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3590, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” on January 21, 2010. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the proposal to amend the bill to provide all states the same level of federal assistance for Medicaid that Nebraska would receive under the Senate-passed version”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 21, 2010 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41998
- CBO publication date
- January 21, 2010
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3590, 111th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/3590
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 26, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f32cfa74c9df900606bb4285135324b798e6b504a285591980e05ed85de0cc27
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3590, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” on March 11, 2010. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the Senate on December 24, 2009.</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 11, 2010 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/21279
- CBO publication date
- March 11, 2010
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3590, 111th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/3590
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 26, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f32cfa74c9df900606bb4285135324b798e6b504a285591980e05ed85de0cc27
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3590, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” on March 11, 2010. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the Senate on December 24, 2009”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 11, 2010 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/21279
- CBO publication date
- March 11, 2010
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3590, 111th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/3590
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 26, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f32cfa74c9df900606bb4285135324b798e6b504a285591980e05ed85de0cc27
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.
- Congress.gov noteH.R.4872 makes a number of health-related financing and revenue changes to this bill. Read together, this bill and the health care-related provisions of H.R.4872 are commonly referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA).Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- notes
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3590, 111th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/3590
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 26, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f32cfa74c9df900606bb4285135324b798e6b504a285591980e05ed85de0cc27
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3590, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 26, 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
40 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 37 Democrats
3 of 40 cosponsors (8%) are from the other party.
Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Artur Davis (D-AL), Danny Davis (D-IL), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Bob Etheridge (D-NC), Bob Filner (D-CA), Al Green (D-TX), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Walter Jones (R-NC), Steve Kagen (D-WI), Ron Kind (D-WI), John Larson (D-CT), Sander Levin (D-MI), John Lewis (D-GA), Jim McDermott (D-WA), James McGovern (D-MA), Kendrick Meek (D-FL), Walter Minnick (D-ID), Dennis Moore (D-KS), Richard Neal (D-MA), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Gary Peters (D-MI), Todd Platts (R-PA) and 10 more.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.