Addressing Anti-Competitive Health Care Contract Clauses Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2861.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. SPARTZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 69, April 25, 2023, Page H1950):
  Article I Section 8 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Government Accountability Office to evaluate the effects of anticompetitive contracting clauses in contracts between health insurers and health care providers and to determine actions taken by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice relating to the use of such clauses in such contracts and to assess their ability to effectively enforce the Federal antitrust laws with respect to such use.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 25, 2023 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2861, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2861

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  08c8b98c53f16e601be446e9063db7532103079c9b915395cf684a2c941a20ba

  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 July 24, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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