House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Reduce and Eliminate Mental Health Outpatient Veteran Copays Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 26, 2022
- Committee actionSep 21, 2022
- Passed HouseSep 28, 2022 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 29, 2022 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7589.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TAKANO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 68, April 26, 2022, Page H4511):Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, authorized by Congress' power to ``provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.''Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 26, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 165 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7589, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/7589
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 28, 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 May 28, 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
10 cosponsors — 10 Democrats
0 of 10 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Julia Brownley (D-CA), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Kaiali'i Kahele (D-HI), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Chris Pappas (D-NH), David Trone (D-MD), Lauren Underwood (D-IL), Nikema Williams (D-GA).
More from the sponsor
Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mark Takano.
- H.R. 1276 (117th) SAVE LIVES Act
- H.R. 1948 (117th) VA Employee Fairness Act of 2021
- H.R. 3967 (117th) Honoring our PACT Act of 2022
- H.R. 6411 (117th) STRONG Veterans Act of 2022
- H.R. 7946 (117th) Veteran Service Recognition Act of 2022
- H.R. 5721 (117th) VA Infrastructure Powers Exceptional Research Act of 2021
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.