House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Preventing Medicare Telefraud Act
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish requirements for the provision of certain high-cost durable medical equipment and laboratory testing, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Lloyd Doggett D-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 3, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 3, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1785.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DOGGETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 40, March 3, 2025, Page H946):Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 69 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1785, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1785
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 27, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 March 27, 2025). 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lloyd Doggett.
- H.Res. 127 (119th) Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House…
- H.R. 995 (119th) No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act
- H.R. 2045 (119th) Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2025
- H.R. 930 (119th) Stop the Wait Act of 2025
- H.R. 1918 (119th) Farewell to Foam Act of 2025
- H.R. 609 (119th) Assuring Medicare’s Promise Act of 2025
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.