House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2021
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 25, 2021
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 26, 2021 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1330.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BURGESS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 36, February 25, 2021, Page H730):Article 1, Section 8, clause 7Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 25, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1330, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1330
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 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
38 cosponsors — 35 Republicans, 3 Democrats
3 of 38 cosponsors (8%) are from the other party.
Brian Babin (R-TX), Jim Banks (R-IN), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Larry Bucshon (R-IN), Ted Budd (R-NC), Earl Carter (R-GA), Michael Cloud (R-TX), Tom Cole (R-OK), Eric Crawford (R-AR), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Neal Dunn (R-FL), A. Ferguson (R-GA), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), H. Griffith (R-VA), Andy Harris (R-MD), Kevin Hern (R-OK), Jody Hice (R-GA), Clay Higgins (R-LA), J. Hill (R-AR), Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Bill Johnson (R-OH), John Joyce (R-PA), Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), Tracey Mann (R-KS), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Gregory Murphy (R-NC), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Scott Perry (R-PA), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Pete Sessions (R-TX) and 8 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 16, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.