Senate bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act
Sponsor: Sen. Amy Klobuchar D-MNWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 30, 2023
- Committee actionFeb 9, 2023
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 1, 2023 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 20.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 142.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 142, Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act” on March 13, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on March 1, 2023”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 13, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60083
- CBO publication date
- March 13, 2024
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 142, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/s/142
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of August 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 142, last updated August 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
10 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 7 Democrats
3 of 10 cosponsors (30%) are from the other party.
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Peter Welch (D-VT).
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.