House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Affordable Inhalers and Nebulizers Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to reduce patient cost sharing for prescription drug inhaler products used to treat breathing disorders such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Kweisi Mfume D-MDWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 10, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 10, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Workforce, 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. 5278.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MFUME, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 148, September 10, 2025, Page H4239):Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, which gives Congress the power to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 10, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 318 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5278, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5278
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- 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 December 5, 2025). 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 — 13 Democrats
0 of 13 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Danny Davis (D-IL), Sarah Elfreth (D-MD), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Shomari Figures (D-AL), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Glenn Ivey (D-MD), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), April McClain Delaney (D-MD), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Johnny Olszewski (D-MD), Shri Thanedar (D-MI).
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