House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Medical Debt Relief Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit the inclusion of medical debt on a consumer report, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Nikema Williams D-GAWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 29, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 29, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4827.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 130, July 29, 2025, Page H3665):Section 8 of Article I of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 29, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 42 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4827, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4827
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 1, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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
17 cosponsors — 17 Democrats
0 of 17 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
J. Correa (D-CA), Jesús García (D-IL), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), John Larson (D-CT), George Latimer (D-NY), Summer Lee (D-PA), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nikema Williams.
- H.R. 4423 (119th) No New Burma Funds Act
- H.R. 1640 (119th) HEIRS Act of 2025
- H.Res. 30 (119th) Honoring the life, achievements, legacy, and public service of former President James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
- H.Con.Res. 65 (119th) Commending State and local governments for championing reproductive rights as human rights.
- H.R. 4917 (119th) Expanding the VOTE Act
- H.R. 4910 (119th) Sustaining Our Democracy Act
Related bills
- S. 2519 (119th) Medical Debt Relief Act of 2025Identical bill
- S. 4622 (119th) PATCH ActRelated 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.