House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
ACA Copay CAP Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to establish an out-of-pocket limit on spending for prescription drugs.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedNov 20, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 20, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6171.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 196, November 20, 2025, Page H4876):Article I, Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 20, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6171, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6171
- 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
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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.