House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Occupational Therapy Mental Health Parity Act.
Official title: To clarify coverage of occupational therapy under the Medicare program.
Sponsor: Rep. Timothy Kennedy D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 17, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 17, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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. 4037.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KENNEDY of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 104, June 17, 2025, Page H2832):Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 17, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 62 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4037, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4037
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 26, 2026
- 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 26, 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
13 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 10 Democrats
3 of 13 cosponsors (23%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Becca Balint (D-VT), Robert Bresnahan (R-PA), Donald Davis (D-NC), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Summer Lee (D-PA), John Mannion (D-NY), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Zachary Nunn (R-IA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Lateefah Simon (D-CA).
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.