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H.R. 5160119th CongressHealth
Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) · 21 active : 10 Republicans, 11 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 464.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedJul 20, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govStem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2025
This bill reauthorizes through FY2031 and revises programs that help patients receive transplants of bone marrow or umbilical cord blood from biologically unrelated donors. These programs are administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
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The bill reauthorizes the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program. This program supports transplantation of bone marrow and cord blood by increasing the quantities of donations, providing processes for matching and distributing donated materials to patients, and providing related information and research.
Also, the bill reauthorizes and revises the National Cord Blood Inventory program, through which HRSA contracts with qualified cord blood banks to collect and maintain a supply of high-quality units for transplantation through the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program. The bill amends the inventory program by (1) changing the inventory goal from 150,000 units to a sufficient supply as determined by HRSA, (2) requiring HRSA to manage the size and composition of the inventory to maximize clinical utility and efficiency, and (3) defining
high quality cord blood unit
to mean a unit meeting current industry standards and the requirements of the Food and Drug Administration.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
House
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Health · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Biological and life sciences
- Blood and blood diseases
- Cell biology and embryology
- Health programs administration and funding
- Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
21 activeShow all 21 cosponsors
- Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24)
- Doris O. Matsui (D-CA-7)
- Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL-12)
- Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-7)
- Debbie Dingell (D-MI-6)
- Michelle Fischbach (R-MN-7)
- Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5)
- Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL-4)
- Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY-2)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC-AL)
- Kathy Castor (D-FL-14)
- Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11)
- Cliff Bentz (R-OR-2)
- Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA-44)
- Brad Finstad (R-MN-1)
- Kelly Morrison (D-MN-3)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
