S. 3393 · 118th Congress

SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act

Introduced on Dec 4, 2023 by Bernard Sanders (I-VT). One cosponsor. Latest action (Feb 1, 2024): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 319.

Stage
Reported by committee
Introduced
Dec 4, 2023
Cosponsors
1
0 from the other party
Policy area
Health
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

A bill to reauthorize the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Administrative law and regulatory procedures
  • Advisory bodies
  • Child health
  • Computer security and identity theft
  • Computers and information technology
  • Congressional oversight
  • Criminal justice information and records
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Department of Labor
  • Department of the Treasury
  • Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
  • Drug trafficking and controlled substances
  • Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
  • Education programs funding
  • Emergency communications systems
  • Employment and training programs
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Family services
  • First responders and emergency personnel
  • Government information and archives
  • Government lending and loan guarantees
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Health care costs and insurance
  • Health care coverage and access
  • Health information and medical records
  • Health programs administration and funding
  • Health promotion and preventive care
  • Health technology, devices, supplies
  • Higher education
  • Internet, web applications, social media
  • Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
  • Medical education
  • Medical research
  • Mental health
  • Prescription drugs
  • Research administration and funding
  • Research and development
  • Right of privacy
  • Sex and reproductive health
  • Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
  • State and local finance
  • State and local government operations
  • Student aid and college costs
  • Transportation costs
  • Women's health

Summary

The Congressional Research Service has not summarized this measure yet.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Bernard SandersI-VTSponsor

Republicans · 1

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. Dec 4, 2023Introduced in Senate
  2. Dec 4, 2023 · SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
  3. Dec 12, 2023 · SenateCommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
  4. Feb 1, 2024Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  5. Feb 1, 2024 · SenateCommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  6. Feb 1, 2024 · SenatePlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 319.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

Analisa's mapping of committee jurisdiction to federal agencies; the bill may touch others, or none of these.

Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. Indivior Inc15 reports
    $1.3M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INDIVIOR INC.AI match · 100%
  2. American Psychological Association Services Inc.(FKA American Psychological Assn6 reports
    $2.6M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION$710.8K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  3. MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY6 reports
    $290K reported (all issues)
  4. AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)5 reports
    $14.2M reported (all issues)
  5. AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS5 reports
    $2.3M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS$92K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION5 reports
    $14.1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$1.2M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  7. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE5 reports
    $240K reported (all issues)
  8. Association for Behavioral Healthcare5 reports
    $50K reported (all issues)
  9. BayCare Health System5 reports
  10. Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association5 reports
    $7.5M reported (all issues)
  11. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.5 reports
    $930K reported (all issues)
  12. Boston Medical Center5 reports
    $300K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION$1.6M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  13. Fletcher Group, Inc.5 reports
    $150K reported (all issues)
  14. GSK (fka GLAXOSMITHKLINE INC.)5 reports
    $6.3M reported (all issues)
  15. KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN INC.5 reports
    $2.9M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF WASHINGTONAI match · 97%
  16. NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals5 reports
    $150K reported (all issues)
  17. National Alliance on Mental Illness5 reports
    $50K reported (all issues)
  18. National Association of Children's Hospitals (NACHRI)5 reports
    $490K reported (all issues)
  19. National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners5 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)
  20. National League for Nursing5 reports
    $136.2K reported (all issues)
  21. PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH & MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA5 reports
    $37.4M reported (all issues)
  22. PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION5 reports
    $610K reported (all issues)
  23. Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund (FKA Sandy Hook Promise (SHP))5 reports
    $300K reported (all issues)
  24. Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund fka Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI)5 reports
    $170K reported (all issues)
  25. ALKERMES, INC.4 reports
  26. BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN4 reports
    $1.1M reported (all issues)
  27. Bamboo Health4 reports
    $320K reported (all issues)
  28. Emergency Nurses Association4 reports
    $102.7K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: EMERGENCY NURSES ASSOCIATION$201.3K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  29. HALEON US HOLDINGS LLC4 reports
    $690K reported (all issues)
  30. Mental Health America4 reports
    $84K reported (all issues)
  31. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHAIN DRUG STORES, INC.4 reports
    $3.9M reported (all issues)
  32. NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH4 reports
    $557.9K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$4.3M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  33. Protecting Access to Pain Relief Coalition4 reports
    $400K reported (all issues)
  34. AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION3 reports
    $1.1M reported (all issues)
  35. American Academy of Family Physicians3 reports
    Federal contractor: AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANSAI match · 99%
  36. BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF KANSAS, INC.3 reports
    $25K reported (all issues)
  37. Bipartisan Policy Center Action3 reports
  38. Healthcare Leadership Council3 reports
    $330K reported (all issues)
  39. JOHNSON & JOHNSON SERVICES, INC.3 reports
  40. LUNDBECK LLC3 reports
    $400K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: LUNDBECK LLCAI match · 99%

Reports filed in 2023, 2024, 2025.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.