House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 4, 2015
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 18, 2015 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 745.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WALDEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 19, February 4, 2015, Page H814):Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which provies that ``The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general Welfare of the United States.'' ____________________Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 4, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 269 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 745, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/745
- 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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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
30 cosponsors — 14 Republicans, 16 Democrats
16 of 30 cosponsors (53%) are from the other party.
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Tom Cole (R-OK), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Charles Dent (R-PA), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Blake Farenthold (R-TX), Gregg Harper (R-MS), Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX), Steve Israel (D-NY), David Jolly (R-FL), David Joyce (R-OH), Peter King (R-NY), Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ), Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Richard Neal (D-MA), Richard Nolan (D-MN), Richard Nugent (R-FL), Devin Nunes (R-CA), Bruce Poliquin (R-ME), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Kurt Schrader (D-OR), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Peter Welch (D-VT), Edward Whitfield (R-KY), Ryan Zinke (R-MT).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Greg Walden.
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- H.R. 2583 (114th) Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2015
- H.R. 3826 (114th) Mount Hood Cooper Spur Land Exchange Clarification Act
- H.R. 4596 (114th) Small Business Broadband Deployment Act
- H.R. 1342 (114th) Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2015
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.