House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools and other programs, including social work, physician assistant, and chaplaincy education programs, to promote education and research in palliative care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in academic palliative and hospice care.
Sponsor: Rep. Earl Carter R-GAWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 16, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 16, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4425.
- 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. 122, July 16, 2025, Page H3368):Article 1, Section 8 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 16, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 40 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4425, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4425
- 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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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
9 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 8 Democrats
8 of 9 cosponsors (89%) are from the other party.
Ami Bera (D-CA), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Sarah McBride (D-DE), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Jill Tokuda (D-HI), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Derek Tran (D-CA), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
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- 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
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.