End Taxpayer Subsidies for Drug Ads Act
Latest action · Jan 28, 2021 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedJan 28, 2021
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
End Taxpayer Subsidies for Drug Ads Act
This bill prohibits a tax deduction for expenses relating to direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs.
Direct-to-consumer advertising is any dissemination, by or on behalf of a sponsor of a prescription drug product, of an advertisement that is in regard to the drug product and primarily targeted to the general public.
Cosponsors 22
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 28, 2021 to Mar 11, 2021; 20 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| I-ME | Angus S. King Jr. | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-MA | Elizabeth Warren | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-WV | Joe Manchin III | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-NH | Margaret Wood Hassan | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-HI | Mazie K. Hirono | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CO | Michael F. Bennet | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-VA | Tim Kaine | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-MN | Tina Smith | Original | Jan 28, 2021 |
| D-HI | Brian Schatz | Feb 23, 2021 | |
| D-CT | Christopher Murphy | Mar 11, 2021 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Jan 28, 2021 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 28, 2021Introduced in Senate
- Jan 28, 2021Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 117-809 | PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICE INFLATION: AN URGENT NEED TO LOWER DRUG PRICES IN MEDICARE224 pages | Finance Committee | Mar 16, 2022 |
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| IN11951 | Proposals to Deny a Federal Tax Deduction for Prescription Drug Advertising Expenses Archived | Insight | Jun 10, 2022 |
Related bills 4
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 73 | End Taxpayer Subsidies for Drug Ads Act | Reintroduction of | Jan 10, 2019 |
| S 1898 | Affordable Medications Act | Related bill | May 27, 2021 |
| S 4691 | No Tax Breaks for Drug Ads Act | Reintroduced Bill | Jul 11, 2024 |
| HR 6392 | No Tax Breaks for Drug Ads Act | Related bill | Jan 13, 2022 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny the deduction for advertising and promotional expenses for prescription drugs.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- End Taxpayer Subsidies for Drug Ads Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 28, 2021Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
