House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
DOC Access Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to improve health care coverage under vision and dental plans, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Earl Carter R-GAWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 24, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 24, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1521.
- 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. 171, No. 36, February 24, 2025, Page H769):Article 1, Section 8 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 24, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 40 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1521, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1521
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 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 September 19, 2026). 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
121 cosponsors — 51 Republicans, 70 Democrats
70 of 121 cosponsors (58%) are from the other party.
Gabe Amo (D-RI), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Brian Babin (R-TX), Tom Barrett (R-MI), Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Sheri Biggs (R-SC), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Mike Bost (R-IL), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), J. Correa (D-CA), Angie Craig (D-MN), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Danny Davis (D-IL), Donald Davis (D-NC), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Ron Estes (R-KS), Gabe Evans (R-CO), Mike Ezell (R-MS), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Russell Fry (R-SC), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) and 91 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Earl Carter.
- H.R. 2821 (119th) FDA Modernization Act 3.0
- H.R. 261 (119th) Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025
- H.R. 2493 (119th) Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2025
- H.R. 1455 (119th) ITS Codification Act
- H.Res. 283 (119th) Electing a Member to a certain standing committee of the House of Representatives.
- H.R. 2289 (119th) American Broadband Deployment Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.