House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Medicare Audiologist Access and Services Act of 2019
Sponsor: Rep. Tom Rice R-SCWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 25, 2019
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 26, 2019 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4056.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RICE of South Carolina, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 126, July 25, 2019, Pages H7470-H7471):Article 1, Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 25, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4056, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4056
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 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
65 cosponsors — 23 Republicans, 42 Democrats
42 of 65 cosponsors (65%) are from the other party.
Ralph Abraham (R-LA), Mark Amodei (R-NV), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Tom Cole (R-OK), Angie Craig (D-MN), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Susan Davis (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), Bill Foster (D-IL), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Kevin Hern (R-OK), James Himes (D-CT), George Holding (R-NC), Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN), Kendra Horn (D-OK), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Daniel Kildee (D-MI) and 35 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Tom Rice.
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- H.R. 3287 (116th) TREAD Act
- H.R. 7615 (116th) To provide a payroll tax credit for certain expenses associated with protecting employees from COVID-19.
- H.R. 8947 (116th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1101 Charlotte Street in Georgetown, South Carolina, as the…
- H.R. 1148 (116th) 2018 Natural Disasters Tax Relief Act
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.