House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 15, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 16, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2906.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BUCSHON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 102, June 15, 2017, Page H4938):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 15, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 64 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2906, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/2906
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 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 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
21 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 18 Democrats
18 of 21 cosponsors (86%) are from the other party.
Ami Bera (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Robert Brady (D-PA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), Ron Kind (D-WI), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Doris Matsui (D-CA), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Scott Peters (D-CA), Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Bobby Rush (D-IL), David Young (R-IA).
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Larry Bucshon.
- H.R. 2872 (115th) Promoting Hydropower Development at Existing Nonpowered Dams Act
- H.R. 6793 (115th) Restore the Harmony Way Bridge Act
- H.R. 2557 (115th) Prostate Cancer Misdiagnosis Elimination Act of 2017
- H.R. 5798 (115th) Opioid Screening and Chronic Pain Management Alternatives for Seniors Act
- H.R. 4206 (115th) Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2017
- H.R. 5270 (115th) Electricity Reliability and Fuel Security 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.