House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2026
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the designation of general surgery shortage areas, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Ami Bera D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 22, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 22, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7198.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BERA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 15, January 22, 2026, Page H1351):Article 1 Section 8 Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 22, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 29 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7198, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7198
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 1, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 2, 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 October 1, 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
9 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 7 Democrats
2 of 9 cosponsors (22%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Sharice Davids (D-KS), John Joyce (R-PA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Scott Peters (D-CA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Shri Thanedar (D-MI).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ami Bera.
- H.R. 3429 (119th) US-Japan-ROK Trilateral Cooperation Act
- H.R. 2488 (119th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3817 Marysville Boulevard in Sacramento, California, as the…
- H.R. 6428 (119th) To require the Secretary of State to submit a report on participation in educational and cultural exchange programs.
- H.R. 6126 (119th) United States Foreign Service Commemorative Coin Act
- H.R. 1902 (119th) HERO Act
- H.Res. 880 (119th) Recognizing the strategic value of the historical partnership between the United States and India.
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 2, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.