House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Catastrophic Specialty Hospital Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish new payment rules for certain catastrophic specialty hospitals under the Medicare program.
Sponsor: Rep. Barry Loudermilk R-GAWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 30, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 30, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5644.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LOUDERMILK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 160, September 30, 2025, Page H4510):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 ``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 30, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 268 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5644, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5644
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 20, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 March 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
6 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 3 Democrats
3 of 6 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Mike Carey (R-OH), Earl Carter (R-GA), Jason Crow (D-CO), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Austin Scott (R-GA), Nikema Williams (D-GA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Barry Loudermilk.
- H.R. 5362 (119th) To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of…
- H.Res. 605 (119th) Establishing the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021.
- H.R. 1078 (119th) Respect State Housing Laws Act
- H.R. 1799 (119th) Financial Reporting Threshold Modernization Act
- H.R. 5775 (119th) FCRA Liability Harmonization Act
- H.R. 6550 (119th) American FIRST Act of 2025
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.