House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Medical Laboratory Personnel Shortage Relief Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to address the shortage of medical laboratory personnel, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Deborah Ross D-NCWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 17, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 17, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5444.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. ROSS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 152, September 17, 2025, Page H4411):Article I, Section 8, clause 1 (Taxing and Spending Clause)Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 17, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 59 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5444, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5444
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 15, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
fc441e6d49cbab75df6259141fae52bb32cbb22cabe0fc70f42af1e0f9fca638
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 June 15, 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
2 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 1 Democrat
1 of 2 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Deborah Ross.
- H.R. 9333 (119th) AI Flaw Reporting and Security Enhancement Act
- H.R. 5528 (119th) America’s CHILDREN Act of 2025
- H.R. 4525 (119th) Right to FDA-Approved Medicines Act
- H.R. 4959 (119th) Land of the Free Act of 2025
- H.R. 7375 (119th) End Prison Gerrymandering Act
- H.R. 7711 (119th) No Rewards for January 6 Rioters Act
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.