House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Effective Suicide Screening and Assessment in the Emergency Department Act of 2020
Sponsor: Rep. Gus Bilirakis R-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 28, 2019
- Committee actionSep 9, 2020
- Passed HouseSep 29, 2020 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 30, 2020 — 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. 4861.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4861, Effective Suicide Screening and Assessment in the Emergency Department Act of 2019” on December 24, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on September 9, 2020”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 24, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56932
- CBO publication date
- December 24, 2020
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4861, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4861
- 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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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 116-543 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Commerce Committee on September 29, 2020.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 29, 2020 ↗
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- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/HRPT/543
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4861, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4861
- 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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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BILIRAKIS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 170, October 28, 2019, Page H8539):This bill is enacted pursuant to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 28, 2019 ↗
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- Statement length
- 106 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4861, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4861
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
3c650b896ea8cefd21d661aa15a42549fe5f3af97850dd139e148bd93f610e80
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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
14 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 12 Democrats
12 of 14 cosponsors (86%) are from the other party.
Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Antonio Delgado (D-NY), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), John Katko (R-NY), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Elaine Luria (D-VA), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Bobby Rush (D-IL), Dina Titus (D-NV), Paul Tonko (D-NY), David Trone (D-MD), Lauren Underwood (D-IL).
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Gus Bilirakis.
- H.R. 3504 (116th) Ryan Kules and Paul Benne Specially Adaptive Housing Improvement Act of 2019
- H.R. 2628 (116th) VET CARE Act of 2019
- H.R. 5750 (116th) Streamlining GI Bill Processing Act of 2020
- H.R. 303 (116th) Retired Pay Restoration Act
- H.R. 5995 (116th) Major Richard Star Act
- H.R. 4086 (116th) Protection for Veterans’ Burn Pit Exposure Act of 2019
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.