House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 8, 2015
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 18, 2015 — Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 209.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DOGGETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 3, January 8, 2015, Page H156):Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 8, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 69 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 209, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/209
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 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
58 cosponsors — 21 Republicans, 37 Democrats
21 of 58 cosponsors (36%) are from the other party.
Mark Amodei (R-NV), Lou Barletta (R-PA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Judy Chu (D-CA), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Ryan Costello (R-PA), Susan Davis (D-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA), John Fleming (R-LA), Sam Graves (R-MO), Alan Grayson (D-FL), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Leonard Lance (R-NJ), John Larson (D-CT), John Lewis (D-GA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) and 28 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lloyd Doggett.
- H.R. 876 (114th) NOTICE Act
- H.R. 1260 (114th) American Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2015
- H.R. 297 (114th) Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act
- H.R. 3781 (114th) Family Stability and Kinship Care Act of 2015
- H.R. 2103 (114th) Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act
- H.R. 5125 (114th) Corporate EXIT Fairness Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 22, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.