House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
HEAR Act of 2024
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 18, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 17, 2024 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8064.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTWRIGHT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 68, April 18, 2024, Page H2521):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 (relating to the power of Congress to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States). The single subject of this legislation is: to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare program of hearing aids and related hearing services.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 18, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 403 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8064, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8064
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 19, 2024
- 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 19, 2024). 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
11 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 10 Democrats
1 of 11 cosponsors (9%) are from the other party.
Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), John Larson (D-CT), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Jill Tokuda (D-HI).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Matt Cartwright.
- H.R. 1695 (118th) Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act
- H.R. 8426 (118th) Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2024
- H.R. 5322 (118th) Time Off to Vote Act
- H.R. 3600 (118th) VA Work-Study Improvement Act
- H.R. 3601 (118th) Student Veteran Work Study Modernization Act
- H.R. 5748 (118th) Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.