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S 8265Relates to ensuring continued access to backup devices for patients with cochlear implants

Congress · introduced 2025-05-28

Requires insurance coverage to backup devices for patients with cochlear implants during the initial implantation and for replacements and upgrades.

Latest action: 2025-12-05 VETOED

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · senate REFERRED TO INSURANCE
  2. · senate AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INSURANCE
  3. · senate PRINT NUMBER 8265A
  4. · senate COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
  5. · senate ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.2018
  6. · senate PASSED SENATE
  7. · senate DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
  8. · assembly REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
  9. · assembly SUBSTITUTED FOR A6314A
  10. · assembly ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.617
  11. · assembly PASSED ASSEMBLY
  12. · assembly RETURNED TO SENATE
  13. · senate DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
  14. · senate VETOED MEMO.99

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Inbound (4)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-05-28William Webercosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-05-28Andrew Gounardescosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-05-28Zellnor Myriecosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-05-28Sam Suttonsponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Sam Sutton (, state_upper NY-22)sponsor05
2Andrew Gounardes (, state_upper NY-26)cosponsor01
3William Weber (, state_upper NY-38)cosponsor01
4Zellnor Myrie (, state_upper NY-20)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2025-05-28 · sponsored by Sam Sutton (sponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-05-28 · cosponsored by Zellnor Myrie (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2025-05-28 · cosponsored by William Weber (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  4. 2025-05-28 · cosponsored by Andrew Gounardes (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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