House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
SPARC Act
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize a loan repayment program to encourage specialty medicine physicians to serve in rural communities experiencing a shortage of specialty medicine physicians, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. John Joyce R-PAWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 23, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 23, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4681.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 126, July 23, 2025, Page H3648):Article I, Section 8 Clause 3--Commerce clauseSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 46 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4681, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4681
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 18, 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 July 18, 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
5 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 4 Democrats
4 of 5 cosponsors (80%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Gabe Vasquez (D-NM), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
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Related bills
- S. 1380 (119th) SPARC ActIdentical bill
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.