House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Protecting Seniors from Health Care Fraud Act of 2013
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedNov 21, 2013
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 22, 2013 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3616.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RUIZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H7356):clause 18 of section 8 of article 1 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3616, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/3616
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 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
23 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 19 Democrats
4 of 23 cosponsors (17%) are from the other party.
Bruce Braley (D-IA), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), John Conyers (D-MI), Paul Cook (R-CA), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Joe Garcia (D-FL), Gene Green (D-TX), Richard Hanna (R-NY), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Ben Luján (D-NM), Jim Matheson (D-UT), Doris Matsui (D-CA), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Patrick Murphy (D-FL), Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-CA), Richard Nolan (D-MN), Scott Peters (D-CA), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Thomas Rooney (R-FL), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Peter Welch (D-VT).
More from the sponsor
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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.