House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2013
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 26, 2013
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 23, 2013 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2504.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WALDEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H4079):The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is pursuant to the following: 1) Article I, 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'' 2) Article I, Section 1- All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 560 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2504, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/2504
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
314d7849d71890d59a7a6534f1a6b1c19b285b0add2c9b27b7b2b78bfa4273c1
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.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2504, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 23, 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
162 cosponsors — 57 Republicans, 105 Democrats
105 of 162 cosponsors (65%) are from the other party.
Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Lou Barletta (R-PA), Karen Bass (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Ami Bera (D-CA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Bruce Braley (D-IA), Susan Brooks (R-IN), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Shelley Capito (R-WV), Lois Capps (D-CA), John Carney (D-DE), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), David Cicilline (D-RI), Howard Coble (R-NC), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Chris Collins (R-NY), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Charles Dent (R-PA) and 132 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Greg Walden.
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- H.R. 4572 (113th) STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014
- H.R. 3675 (113th) Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2014
- H.R. 3366 (113th) Hermiston Reversionary Lands Act
- H.R. 5110 (113th) SAVE Medicare Home Health Act of 2014
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.