H.R. 5861
119th Congress
House
Legacy Act of 2025
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to seek an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a study… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to seek an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a study on establishing a system for storing last wish documents, and for other purposes.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 28, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Oct 28, 2025
Introduced in House
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Bill text
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Committees of jurisdiction
1
Lobbying activity
12
- NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- COMPASSION AND CHOICES
- NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Education, Dept of
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- White House Office
Cosponsors
3
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5861: Legacy Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5861/
"H.R. 5861: Legacy Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5861/.
H.R. 5861, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5861/.
[H.R. 5861: Legacy Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5861/)