2025-2026 Regular Session • US Congress Legislature
SB1261: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025 Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2025
Legislative Summary
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand access to telehealth services, and for other purposes.
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Bill History
4/2/2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Senate
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(4/2/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Finance(Senate)
Sponsors
Democrat: 28
Republican: 30
Independent: 2
Primary Sponsor
Brian Schatz
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (59)
Roger Wicker
Republican
Mark Warner
Democrat
Cindy Hyde-Smith
Republican
Peter Welch
Democrat
John Barrasso
Republican
Alex Padilla
Democrat
John Thune
Republican
Tina Smith
Democrat
James Lankford
Republican
Maria Cantwell
Democrat
Tommy Tuberville
Republican
John Hickenlooper
Democrat
Tom Cotton
Republican
Amy Klobuchar
Democrat
Dan Sullivan
Republican
John Fetterman
Democrat
Shelley Capito
Republican
Jeff Merkley
Democrat
Cynthia Lummis
Republican
Tim Kaine
Democrat
Kevin Cramer
Republican
Jeanne Shaheen
Democrat
Katie Boyd Britt
Republican
Ruben Gallego
Democrat
Jerry Moran
Republican
Ben Lujan
Democrat
Bill Cassidy
Republican
Richard Blumenthal
Democrat
Thom Tillis
Republican
Angus King
Independent
James Justice
Republican
Christopher Coons
Democrat
Eric Schmitt
Republican
Sheldon Whitehouse
Democrat
Lisa Murkowski
Republican
Jacky Rosen
Democrat
John Hoeven
Republican
Cory Booker
Democrat
Chuck Grassley
Republican
Tammy Duckworth
Democrat
Mike Rounds
Republican
Bernard Sanders
Independent
Roger Marshall
Republican
Mark Kelly
Democrat
Deb Fischer
Republican
Kirsten Gillibrand
Democrat
Todd Young
Republican
Martin Heinrich
Democrat
Susan Collins
Republican
Gary Peters
Democrat
Pete Ricketts
Republican
Adam Schiff
Democrat
Markwayne Mullin
Republican
Elizabeth Warren
Democrat
Lindsey Graham
Republican
Chris Van Hollen
Democrat
Steve Daines
Republican
Raphael Warnock
Democrat
John Boozman
Republican