House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Letting Insurance Benefit Everyone Regardless of Their Youth (LIBERTY) Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 6, 2013
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 8, 2013 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 544.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GINGREY of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H414):Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 which states that the Congress has power ``to regulate Commerce with the foreign Nations, and among the several States . . .Source: Congress.gov, record updated August 12, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 155 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 544, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/544
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 12, 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 August 12, 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
40 cosponsors — 39 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 40 cosponsors (2%) are from the other party.
Joe Barton (R-TX), Dan Benishek (R-MI), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Charles Boustany (R-LA), Susan Brooks (R-IN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Tom Cotton (R-AR), J. Forbes (R-VA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Tim Griffin (R-AR), Ralph Hall (R-TX), Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), Bill Johnson (R-OH), Walter Jones (R-NC), Billy Long (R-MO), Jim Matheson (D-UT), Howard McKeon (R-CA), Mark Meadows (R-NC), Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), Pete Olson (R-TX), Robert Pittenger (R-NC), Ted Poe (R-TX), Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), David Roe (R-TN), Mike Rogers (R-MI), Todd Rokita (R-IN), Chris Stewart (R-UT), Steve Stivers (R-OH) and 10 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Phil Gingrey.
- H.R. 5003 (113th) Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2014
- H.R. 3742 (113th) Antibiotic Development to Advance Patient Treatment Act of 2013
- H.R. 107 (113th) Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013
- H.R. 477 (113th) Nuclear Family Priority Act
- H.R. 1473 (113th) Standard of Care Protection Act of 2013
- H.R. 4008 (113th) Educational Freedom 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.