Legislative Analysis

What law and rulemaking is the system digesting right now?

2 of 117 federal health bills became law this Congress

The through-line

Four layers, four clocks: Congress (slow, mostly stalls), statehouses (faster, higher hit-rate), CMS/HHS rulemaking (constant and binding), and state CON (routine capacity permission). Watch the rules and your own statehouse, and treat bill counts as sentiment.

Legislation & rulemaking live evidence

Federal health bills by furthest stage reached

119th Congress health bills. Almost everything stalls in committee.

Read it this way The collapse from introduced to enacted is the whole point: bill volume is an agenda signal, not a forecast of law. When you triage policy risk, weight the enacted and the binding rules, not the press-release bills.

⊞ data table⬇ CSV

Stage reached	Bills
Introduced	117
Referred to committee	104
Enacted into law	2

Congress.gov API, 119th Congress health-keyword bills · 2026-06-18 · source

Federal bills 117 119th Congress health bills open dashboard → State bills 1,271 across 51 legislatures · 447 passed open dashboard → Federal Register 1,058 CMS/HHS documents · 22 significant open dashboard → Certificate of need 35,877 filings · 12 states ingested open dashboard →

Sources & methodology

Per-chart citation straps carry the in-context detail; this is the full bibliography.