HR 2005 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2011

Introduced May 26, 2011 Originated House Became Public Law 112-32 Sponsor Christopher H. Smith R-NJ

Latest action · Sep 30, 2011 Became Public Law No: 112-32.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMay 26, 2011
Passed HouseSep 20, 2011
Passed SenateSep 26, 2011
To the PresidentSep 29, 2011
Became lawSep 30, 2011Public Law 112-32

Summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend and reauthorize through FY2014: (1) the surveillance and research program for autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities; (2) the education, early detection, and intervention program for autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities; and (3) the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee.

Cosponsors 100

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 26, 2011 to Sep 20, 2011; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle	Original	May 26, 2011
R-AL	Spencer Bachus		Jun 2, 2011
D-MA	Barney Frank		Jun 14, 2011
D-CT	Christopher Murphy		Jun 14, 2011
R-FL	David Rivera		Jun 14, 2011
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Jun 14, 2011
R-PA	Jim Gerlach		Jun 14, 2011
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jun 14, 2011
D-CT	John B. Larson		Jun 14, 2011
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Jun 14, 2011
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi		Jun 14, 2011
R-NY	Peter T. King		Jun 14, 2011
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Jun 14, 2011
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Jun 22, 2011
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Jun 22, 2011
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jun 22, 2011
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Jun 22, 2011
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Jun 22, 2011
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Jun 22, 2011
R-IN	Dan Burton		Jun 22, 2011
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Jun 22, 2011
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Jun 22, 2011
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		Jun 22, 2011
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jun 22, 2011
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Jun 22, 2011
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Jun 22, 2011
D-GA	John Lewis		Jun 22, 2011
D-CA	Karen Bass		Jun 22, 2011
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Jun 22, 2011
D-CA	Laura Richardson		Jun 22, 2011
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Jun 22, 2011
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Jun 22, 2011
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Jun 22, 2011
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Jun 24, 2011
D-CT	James A. Himes		Jun 24, 2011
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jun 24, 2011
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jun 24, 2011
D-GA	John Barrow		Jun 24, 2011
R-IL	Aaron Schock		Jul 6, 2011
D-IN	André Carson		Jul 6, 2011
D-VA	James P. Moran		Jul 6, 2011
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter		Jul 6, 2011
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Jul 6, 2011
R-PA	Tom Marino		Jul 6, 2011
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Jul 13, 2011
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Jul 20, 2011
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Jul 20, 2011
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Jul 20, 2011
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jul 25, 2011
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Jul 25, 2011
D-GA	David Scott		Jul 29, 2011
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		Jul 29, 2011
D-NC	Larry Kissell		Jul 29, 2011
D-NY	Steve Israel		Jul 29, 2011
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Aug 1, 2011
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Aug 1, 2011
R-AK	Don Young		Aug 26, 2011
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Aug 26, 2011
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Aug 26, 2011
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Aug 26, 2011
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Aug 26, 2011
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Aug 26, 2011
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Sep 7, 2011
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Sep 7, 2011
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Sep 7, 2011
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Sep 7, 2011
D-TX	Gene Green		Sep 7, 2011
R-NE	Jeff Fortenberry		Sep 7, 2011
R-KS	Kevin Yoder		Sep 7, 2011
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Sep 7, 2011
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Sep 7, 2011
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono		Sep 7, 2011
R-KS	Mike Pompeo		Sep 7, 2011
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Sep 7, 2011
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Sep 7, 2011
D-MA	William R. Keating		Sep 7, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Sep 12, 2011
R-CA	Ken Calvert		Sep 12, 2011
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Sep 12, 2011
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Sep 15, 2011
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Sep 15, 2011
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Sep 15, 2011
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		Sep 15, 2011
D-UT	Jim Matheson		Sep 15, 2011
R-NJ	Jon Runyan		Sep 15, 2011
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Sep 15, 2011
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Sep 19, 2011
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Sep 19, 2011
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Sep 19, 2011
R-NE	Lee Terry		Sep 19, 2011
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Sep 19, 2011
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Sep 19, 2011
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Sep 19, 2011
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		Sep 19, 2011
R-AR	Tim Griffin		Sep 19, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Sep 20, 2011
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan		Sep 20, 2011
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Sep 20, 2011
R-PA	Patrick Meehan		Sep 20, 2011
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Sep 20, 2011

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred May 26, 2011
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Jun 3, 2011

Actions 14

Everything that happened, newest first.

Sep 30, 2011Signed by President.
Sep 30, 2011Became Public Law No: 112-32.
Sep 29, 2011Presented to President.
Sep 27, 2011Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Sep 26, 2011Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S6004)

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In the Congressional Record 3

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Extensions	Debate and remarks E1303	Christopher H. Smith R-NJ	Jul 24, 2012
Senate	Debate and remarks S6004	Harry Reid D-NV	Sep 26, 2011
House	Debate and remarks H6249–H6254Text printed H6249	Christopher H. Smith R-NJ, David Loebsack D-IA, G. K. Butterfield D-NC, Gregg Harper R-MS, Joseph R. Pitts R-PA, Mazie K. Hirono D-HI, Michael F. Doyle D-PA, Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX, Spencer Bachus R-AL	Sep 20, 2011

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

Sep 19, 2011H.R. 2005, Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2011Cost estimate for the bill as introduced in the House of Representatives on May 26, 2011

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: The constitutional authority on which this bill is based is Congress's power under Article I, Section 8, Clause I of the Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H3756.

Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 112-72	LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON MISCELLANEOUS PUBLIC HEALTH LEGISLATION, H.R. 1852, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL GME SUPPORT REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2011, AND H.R. 2005, COMBATING AUTISM REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 201178 pages	Energy and Commerce Committee	Jul 11, 2011
Serial No. 112-65	GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON AUTISM--A GROWING PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS62 pages	Foreign Affairs Committee	May 31, 2011

CRS reports 3

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 3

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R41609	Violence Against Members of Congress and Their Staff: Selected Examples and Congressional Responses	Report	Aug 17, 2017
R42369	The Combating Autism Act: Overview and Funding Archived	Report	Dec 27, 2012
RL32842	Gun Control Legislation Archived	Report	Nov 14, 2012

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1094	Combating Autism Reauthorization Act	Related bill	Sep 12, 2011

Titles 4

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To reauthorize the Combating Autism Act of 2006.
Short Titles as Introduced: Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2011
Short Titles as Passed House: Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2011
Short Titles as Passed Senate: Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2011

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Text 4

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

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