House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Medical Debt Relief Act of 2021
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 3, 2021
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 3, 2021 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 773.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. PORTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 20, February 3, 2021, Page H325):Article 1, Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 3, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 773, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/773
- 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
47 cosponsors — 47 Democrats
0 of 47 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), André Carson (D-IN), Judy Chu (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jason Crow (D-CO), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Jesús García (D-IL), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Mondaire Jones (D-NY), Daniel Kildee (D-MI), John Larson (D-CT), Al Lawson (D-FL), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), Betty McCollum (D-MN), James McGovern (D-MA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Grace Napolitano (D-CA) and 17 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.