House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Special Needs Trust Fairness and Medicaid Improvement Act
Sponsor: Rep. Glenn Thompson R-PAWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 3, 2015
- Committee actionJul 13, 2016
- Passed HouseSep 20, 2016 · 383–22
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 21, 2016 — 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. 670.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 670, Special Needs Trust Fairness and Medicaid Improvement Act” on September 13, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 13, 2016”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 13, 2016 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51990
- CBO publication date
- September 13, 2016
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 670, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/670
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 10, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-734 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Commerce Committee on September 9, 2016.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 9, 2016 ↗
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- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/734
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 670, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/670
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 10, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 18, February 3, 2015, Page H756):Article I, Section 8, Clause 14; and including, but not solely limited to the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 3, 2015 ↗
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- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 119 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 670, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/670
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 10, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
aa575c3b2c26bae2cb0fcddffd952a159262a21242753ea90484454fcc62c1d1
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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
51 cosponsors — 34 Republicans, 17 Democrats
17 of 51 cosponsors (33%) are from the other party.
Mark Amodei (R-NV), Lou Barletta (R-PA), Dan Benishek (R-MI), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Mike Bishop (R-MI), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), David Cicilline (D-RI), Barbara Comstock (R-VA), Ryan Costello (R-PA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Daniel Donovan (R-NY), Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Charles Fleischmann (R-TN), Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), Bob Gibbs (R-OH), Christopher Gibson (R-NY), Richard Hanna (R-NY), Cresent Hardy (R-NV), Gregg Harper (R-MS), Joseph Heck (R-NV), Richard Hudson (R-NC), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Steve Israel (D-NY), John Katko (R-NY), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), John Kline (R-MN), Ann Kuster (D-NH) and 21 more.
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.