Senate bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Ensuring Patient Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatments Act of 2018
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 24, 2017
- Committee actionApr 26, 2017
- Passed SenateMay 23, 2018 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 25, 2018 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 916.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 916, Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2017” on May 23, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on April 26, 2017”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 23, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52762
- CBO publication date
- May 23, 2017
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 916, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/s/916
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 916, last updated April 21, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 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
13 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 7 Democrats, 1 independent
8 of 13 cosponsors (62%) are from the other party.
Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Roy Blunt (R-MO), John Boozman (R-AR), Al Franken (D-MN), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), John Hoeven (R-ND), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Patty Murray (D-WA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
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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.