House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
GME Transparency Act of 2026
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require hospitals receiving payment for direct graduate medical education costs under the Medicare program to report information with respect to the citizenship status of residents in an approved medical residency training program.
Sponsor: Rep. W. Steube R-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 20, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 20, 2026 — Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8942.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STEUBE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 86, May 20, 2026, Page H3670):Article I Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 20, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8942, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8942
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 14, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 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 October 14, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. W. Steube.
- H.R. 5366 (119th) Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act
- H.R. 6495 (119th) Taxpayer Notification and Privacy Act
- H.R. 9498 (119th) Taxpayer Advocate Participation Act
- H.R. 28 (119th) Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
- H.R. 1028 (119th) Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act of 2026
- H.R. 539 (119th) Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.