Block Organ Transplant Purchases from China Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on Mar 14, 2025, with cosponsors, all Republicans
IntroducedMar 14, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 85 words.
Block Organ Transplant Purchases from China Act of 2025 or the Block Act of 2025 This bill prohibits Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurers from covering organ transplants that occur in China or that involve organs that are not procured through the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. The bill also prohibits health care providers from performing such a transplant or related services, except for life-saving services that are necessary as a result of such a transplant. Violations are subject to criminal and civil penalties.
Context
- Committees
- House Energy and Commerce Committee
House Ways and Means Committee - Policy area
- Health: 122 of 9,357 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.3%)
- Sponsor
- 1 of 86 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 1,133 words
- Latest action
- Mar 14, 2025: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 0
The bill status record lists no related bills.
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]