Lower Costs for Everyday Americans Act
Latest action · Mar 3, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, the Judiciary, and Education and Workforce, 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.
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.
- IntroducedMar 3, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Lower Costs for Everyday Americans Act
This bill reauthorizes and establishes programs and requirements regarding health, commerce, and the environment.
The bill reauthorizes and expands programs for health care, including by
- allowing individuals age 65 and over with a medically improved disability to qualify for Medicaid;
- extending payment increases for certain providers under Medicare, including physicians and rural hospitals;
- extending Medicare coverage of certain telehealth services;
- requiring pharmacy benefit managers to remit 100% of rebates for prescription drugs to group health plans;
- reauthorizing programs supporting health care in underserved communities, including the National Health Service Corps;
- expanding and reauthorizing programs for public health emergency preparedness and response, including pandemic preparedness;
- expanding and reauthorizing programs for prevention and treatment of certain conditions, including substance use disorders, traumatic brain injuries, and sickle cell disease; and
- expanding the Food and Drug Administration’s authority regarding research on rare pediatric diseases.
The bill also establishes requirements relating to commerce, including by
- prohibiting nonconsensual online publication of intimate visual depictions of individuals,
- requiring manufacturers of internet-connected devices to disclose whether the device has a camera or microphone prior to purchase,
- banning products containing 10% or more of sodium nitrite by weight, and
- requiring additional disclosures relating to the prices of concert tickets and hotel rooms.
Additionally, the bill establishes and reauthorizes programs relating to the environment, including grants for community recycling systems, drinking water infrastructure, and reducing diesel emissions. It also allows gasoline that is blended with 10% to 15% ethanol to be sold year-round.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 5
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 Mar 3, 2025 |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Mar 3, 2025 |
| House | Budget Committee | Referred Mar 3, 2025 |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Mar 3, 2025 |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Mar 3, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 3, 2025Introduced in House
- Mar 3, 2025Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, the Judiciary, and Education and Workforce, 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.
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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 40, March 3, 2025, page H945.
CRS reports 2
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 2
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R48179 | Tickets for Live Entertainment Events | Report | Mar 20, 2026 |
| R47621 | The Universal Service Fund and Related FCC Broadband Programs: Overview and Considerations for Congress | Report | Jan 21, 2026 |
Related bills 88
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
Titles 7
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for lower costs for everyday Americans, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Lower Costs for Everyday Americans Act
- Short Title(s) as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act
- Recycling and Composting Accountability Act
- SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025
- American Music Tourism Act
- Deploying American Blockchains Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Accounting and auditing
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Advisory bodies
- Africa
- Aging
- Alternative and renewable resources
- Arab-Israeli relations
- Asia
- Assault and harassment offenses
- Bahrain
- Blood and blood diseases
- Business ethics
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Child health
- China
- Civil actions and liability
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Consumer affairs
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
- Crimes against children
- Criminal procedure and sentencing
- Currency
- Data collection, sharing, protection
- Dental care
- Department of Commerce
- Digestive and metabolic diseases
- Digital media
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Disability assistance
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Drug trafficking and controlled substances
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
- Educational guidance
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Employment and training programs
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Europe
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Family planning and birth control
- Family services
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Federal officials
- Federal preemption
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Freedom of information
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Government studies and investigations
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health information and medical records
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Hereditary and development disorders
- HIV/AIDS
- Home and outpatient care
- Hospital care
- Immunology and vaccination
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Infrastructure development
- Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
- Intergovernmental relations
- International law and treaties
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Iran
- Israel
- Judicial review and appeals
- Juvenile crime and gang violence
- Kazakhstan
- Licensing and registrations
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Manufacturing
- Marketing and advertising
- Medicaid
- Medical research
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Mental health
- Middle East
- Military personnel and dependents
- Morocco
- Music
- National and community service
- Neurological disorders
- North Korea
- Oil and gas
- Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
- Photography and imaging
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Prescription drugs
- Public contracts and procurement
- Public-private cooperation
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
- Retail and wholesale trades
- Right of privacy
- Rural conditions and development
- Russia
- Service industries
- Sex and reproductive health
- Sex offenses
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Solid waste and recycling
- Spacecraft and satellites
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
- Strategic materials and reserves
- Student aid and college costs
- Sudan
- Supply chain
- Telecommunication rates and fees
- Telephone and wireless communication
- Trade agreements and negotiations
- Travel and tourism
- U.S. and foreign investments
- U.S. Sentencing Commission
- United Arab Emirates
- User charges and fees
- Water quality
- Water resources funding
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 3, 2025Introduced in House
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.
