House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Preventing Overdoses While in Emergency Rooms Act of 2018
Sponsor: Rep. David McKinley R-WVWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 6, 2018
- Committee actionMay 9, 2018
- Passed HouseJun 12, 2018 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 13, 2018 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5176.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5176, Preventing Overdoses While in Emergency Rooms Act of 2018” on June 7, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 9, 2018”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 7, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53978
- CBO publication date
- June 7, 2018
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5176, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5176
- 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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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McKINLEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 39, March 6, 2018, Page H1441):Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: Congress shall have the Power . . . ``to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.''Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 6, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 172 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5176, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5176
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
e3f0216ed8335ac4b8f51bcec8853205f7711c03804c16f7158ab9c3ee01a34d
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5176, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
18 cosponsors — 12 Republicans, 6 Democrats
6 of 18 cosponsors (33%) are from the other party.
Andy Barr (R-KY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Barbara Comstock (R-VA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Mike Doyle (D-PA), John Faso (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), J. Hill (R-AR), Evan Jenkins (R-WV), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Bill Posey (R-FL), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Bradley Schneider (D-IL), Greg Walden (R-OR).
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. David McKinley.
- H.R. 2122 (115th) To reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project involving Jennings Randolph Dam.
- H.R. 613 (115th) Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Correctional Officer Self-Protection Act of 2017
- H.R. 3017 (115th) Brownfields Enhancement, Economic Redevelopment, and Reauthorization Act of 2017
- H.Con.Res. 43 (115th) Providing official recognition of the massacre of 11 African-American soldiers of the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion of the United States…
- H.Res. 31 (115th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to restore…
- H.R. 4392 (115th) To provide that the provision of the Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment…
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.