To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to adjust the eligibility for the rural emergency hospital designation under the Medicare program.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6596.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCHMIDT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 208, December 10, 2025, Page H5562):
  clause 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 10, 2025 ↗

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  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6596, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6596

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 7, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9bbb14bc9db5a91a5a0057b871fe9ad51f71d2d7208fcac943568099b1be7607

  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 January 7, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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