House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act
Official title: To improve the requirements for making a determination of interchangeability of a biological product and its reference product.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 19, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 19, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5526.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PFLUGER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 154, September 19, 2025, Page H4489):Article I Section 8 of the Unites States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 19, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 53 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5526, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5526
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 22, 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 22, 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
10 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 4 Democrats
4 of 10 cosponsors (40%) are from the other party.
Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Randy Fine (R-FL), Craig Goldman (R-TX), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Blake Moore (R-UT), Burgess Owens (R-UT), Eric Sorensen (D-IL), Gabe Vasquez (D-NM), Robert Wittman (R-VA).
More from the sponsor
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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.