House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Seniors' Health Care Plan Protection Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 29, 2015
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseJun 17, 2015 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 18, 2015 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2582.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BUCHANAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 84, May 29, 2015, Page H3582):The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces, as enumerated in Article I, Section 8, Clause 14 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 29, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 240 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2582, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2582
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
500438f7da2fa90f129ab04fbf4a281903256acb91e47d08da93bbd7e800f885
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 April 7, 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
10 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 4 Democrats
4 of 10 cosponsors (40%) are from the other party.
Diane Black (R-TN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), David Jolly (R-FL), David Loebsack (D-IA), Charles Rangel (D-NY), David Scott (D-GA), Steve Womack (R-AR).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan.
- H.R. 91 (114th) Veterans Identification Card Act 2015
- H.R. 3957 (114th) Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act of 2016
- H.R. 5456 (114th) Family First Prevention Services Act of 2016
- H.R. 2506 (114th) Seniors' Health Care Plan Protection Act of 2015
- H.R. 5169 (114th) What Works to Move Welfare Recipients into Jobs Act
- H.Res. 451 (114th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Sergeant Charles Martland, a decorated member of the Special Forces, should be…
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.