House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Accessibility Act of 2017
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 28, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 3, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1253.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KILMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 35, February 28, 2017, Page H1393):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 28, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1253, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1253
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 11, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 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 11, 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
23 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 17 Democrats
6 of 23 cosponsors (26%) are from the other party.
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Chris Collins (R-NY), John Conyers (D-MI), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Gene Green (D-TX), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Eddie Johnson (D-TX), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Leonard Lance (R-NJ), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Thomas MacArthur (R-NJ), Tim Murphy (R-PA), Collin Peterson (D-MN), C. Ruppersberger (D-MD), John Rutherford (R-FL), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Filemon Vela (D-TX), Timothy Walz (D-MN), Frederica Wilson (D-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Derek Kilmer.
- H.R. 1159 (115th) United States and Israel Space Cooperation Act
- H.R. 1066 (115th) VA Management Alignment Act of 2017
- H.R. 3712 (115th) Major General Tim Lowenberg National Guard Cyber Defenders Act
- H.R. 4077 (115th) Honest Ads Act
- H.R. 1160 (115th) ACO Assignment Improvement Act of 2017
- H.R. 3874 (115th) Accountability for Quality VA Healthcare 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.