House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
DOC Access Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 7, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 17, 2023 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1385.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTER of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 43, March 7, 2023, Page H1150):Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to improve health care coverage under vision and dental plans, and for other purposes.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 7, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 224 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1385, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1385
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 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
88 cosponsors — 37 Republicans, 51 Democrats
51 of 88 cosponsors (58%) are from the other party.
Jodey Arrington (R-TX), Brian Babin (R-TX), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Cliff Bentz (R-OR), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Mike Bost (R-IL), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Yadira Caraveo (D-CO), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), James Comer (R-KY), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Danny Davis (D-IL), Donald Davis (D-NC), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Ron Estes (R-KS), Pat Fallon (R-TX), A. Ferguson (R-GA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Charles Fleischmann (R-TN), Mike Flood (R-NE), Bill Foster (D-IL), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Al Green (D-TX), Josh Harder (D-CA) and 58 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.