House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Medicare Audiologist Access and Services Act of 2021
Sponsor: Rep. Tom Rice R-SCWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 3, 2021
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 4, 2021 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1587.
- 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. 167, No. 40, March 3, 2021, Page H1081):Section 8 of Article I of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 3, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 42 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1587, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1587
- 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.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1587, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 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
54 cosponsors — 27 Republicans, 27 Democrats
27 of 54 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Mark Amodei (R-NV), Don Bacon (R-NE), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-GA), Tim Burchett (R-TN), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), André Carson (D-IN), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Judy Chu (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Tom Cole (R-OK), James Comer (R-KY), Jason Crow (D-CO), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Jared Golden (D-ME), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Lucy McBath (D-GA) and 24 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.