House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2019
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 29, 2019
- Committee actionApr 30, 2019
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 21, 2019 — Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2376.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2376, Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2019” on May 23, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on April 30, 2019”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 23, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55291
- CBO publication date
- May 23, 2019
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2376, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2376
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 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. COLLINS of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 69, April 29, 2019, Pages H3303-H3304):Article I, Section 1, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, in that the legislation concerns the exercise of legislative powers generally granted to Congress by that section; Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, in that the legislation concerns the exercise of specific legislative powers granted to Congress by those sections; and, Article I, Section 8, clause 18 of the United States Constitution, in that the legislation exercises legislative power granted to Congress by that clause ``to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of…Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 29, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 758 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2376, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2376
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
bfd529fd902b5d4a172af3996dca492c27ee8de6bc135d58ff0802e0f252f733
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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
7 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 6 Democrats
6 of 7 cosponsors (86%) are from the other party.
Steve Cohen (D-TN), Mark Meadows (R-NC), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Katie Porter (D-CA), Max Rose (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 20, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.