House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2017
Sponsor: Rep. Sander Levin D-MIWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 29, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 14, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3111.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LEVIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 112, June 29, 2017, Page H5377):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 29, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3111, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3111
- 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
31 cosponsors — 31 Democrats
0 of 31 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Judy Chu (D-CA), John Conyers (D-MI), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Danny Davis (D-IL), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), John Garamendi (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Ro Khanna (D-CA), James Langevin (D-RI), John Larson (D-CT), Barbara Lee (D-CA), John Lewis (D-GA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Doris Matsui (D-CA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), James McGovern (D-MA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Richard Neal (D-MA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Linda Sánchez (D-CA) and 1 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.