House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
SAFER Nursing Homes Act of 2024
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 10, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 10, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9529.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RUIZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 140, September 10, 2024, Page H5157):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution of the United States (the Necessary and Proper Clause) grants Congress the power to enact this legislation. The single subject of this legislation is: To provide funding for skilled nursing facility and nursing facility survey and certification activities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 10, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 349 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9529, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9529
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 16, 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 16, 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
7 cosponsors — 7 Democrats
0 of 7 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Ami Bera (D-CA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Jill Tokuda (D-HI).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Raul Ruiz.
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- H.Res. 734 (118th) Expressing support for the designation of October 1 as "National Latino and Latina Physician Day".
- H.R. 5414 (118th) Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act of 2023
- H.R. 8325 (118th) Physician and Patient Safety 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.