House bill · 112th Congress · Did not become law
Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2011
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 20, 2011
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 26, 2011 — Referred for a period ending not later than September 26, 2011, (or for a later time if the Chairman so designates) to the Subcommittee on Health, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2969.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BURGESS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H6272):The attached bill is constitutional under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: ``To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes'' as well as Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1: ``The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.''Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 486 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2969, 112th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/2969
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 25, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
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
127 cosponsors — 43 Republicans, 84 Democrats
84 of 127 cosponsors (66%) are from the other party.
Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Joe Baca (D-CA), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Dan Benishek (R-MI), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Dan Boren (D-OK), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Shelley Capito (R-WV), Lois Capps (D-CA), Russ Carnahan (D-MO), André Carson (D-IN), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Hansen Clarke (D-MI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), John Conyers (D-MI), James Cooper (D-TN), Jim Costa (D-CA), Ander Crenshaw (R-FL), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Susan Davis (D-CA), Diana DeGette (D-CO) and 97 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.