House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Tick Identification Pilot Program Act of 2025
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to award grants to States to implement a tick identification pilot program.
Sponsor: Rep. Josh Gottheimer D-NJWhere it went
- IntroducedAug 15, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 15, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4979.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOTTHEIMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 138, August 15, 2025, Page H3699):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 15, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
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- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4979, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4979
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 20, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of October 20, 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
12 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 7 Democrats
5 of 12 cosponsors (42%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Robert Bresnahan (R-PA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), André Carson (D-IN), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), William Keating (D-MA), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Summer Lee (D-PA), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), John Mannion (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 21, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.