Bill
S. 3385 (119th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the enhancement of the health care premium tax credit.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the enhancement of the health care premium tax credit.
Summary
Recorded summary
This Senate bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend, through 2028, three temporary ARPA and IRA changes to the health care premium tax credit: elimination of the 400% FPL maximum income limit, lower applicable percentages, and suspension of inflation adjustments to those percentages. The changes would otherwise expire after 2025, and the bill would make them last three more years.
Theological note: Scripture calls believers to care for the sick and the vulnerable and to act with justice and mercy toward the poor, but it does not specify a particular federal premium subsidy design. Questions about how much government should subsidize health coverage, how it affects costs and debt, and whose income ranges qualify are matters of prudential judgment under general equity and stewardship, not direct moral verdicts.
Scoring
How this bill is scored
- Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
- Lane: fiscal_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: health_care_costs. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: healthcare. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: public_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: tax_credit. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: taxes. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
- Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
- Roll 644: On the Cloture Motion S. 3385. Vote type: cloture.
- Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill extends a health-coverage affordability subsidy that serves a real good of access to care for lower- and middle-income households, but it also expands federal tax-credit spending and raises legitimate prudential concerns about cost, fiscal burden, and program design. The summary describes no direct advancement of moral harm, so a mixed classification fits the metadata better than good or evil.
- Theological note: Scripture calls believers to care for the sick and the vulnerable and to act with justice and mercy toward the poor, but it does not specify a particular federal premium subsidy design. Questions about how much government should subsidize health coverage, how it affects costs and debt, and whose income ranges qualify are matters of prudential judgment under general equity and stewardship, not direct moral verdicts.
Debt and war Cloture and Tier 1 Procedural votes Scoring mechanics
Roll
Recorded votes
Roll 644 · December 11, 2025, 12:29 PM · On the Cloture Motion S. 3385 · Cloture Motion Rejected (51-48, 3/5 majority required)
Yea
- ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA
- BALDWIN, TAMMY
- BENNET, MICHAEL F.
- BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
- BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA
- BOOKER, CORY A.
- CANTWELL, MARIA
- COLLINS, SUSAN M.
- COONS, CHRISTOPHER A.
- CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE
- DUCKWORTH, L. TAMMY
- DURBIN, RICHARD J.
- FETTERMAN, JOHN KARL
- GALLEGO, RUBEN
- GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN
- HASSAN, MARGARET WOOD
- HAWLEY, JOSHUA DAVID SEN
- HEINRICH, MARTIN
- HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W.
- HIRONO, MAZIE K.
- KAINE, TIMOTHY MICHAEL
- KELLY, MARK
- KIM, ANDY
- KING, ANGUS S. JR.
- KLOBUCHAR, AMY
- LUJAN, BEN RAY
- MARKEY, EDWARD SEN.
- MERKLEY, JEFFREY ALAN
- MURKOWSKI, LISA
- MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER S
- MURRAY, PATTY
- OSSOFF, T. JONATHAN
- PADILLA, ALEX
- PETERS, GARY
- REED, JOHN F.
- ROSEN, JACKY
- SANDERS, BERNARD
- SCHATZ, BRIAN
- SCHIFF, ADAM
- SCHUMER, CHARLES E.
- SHAHEEN, JEANNE
- SLOTKIN, ELISSA
- SMITH, TINA
- SULLIVAN, DAN
- VAN HOLLEN, CHRIS
- WARNER, MARK ROBERT
- WARNOCK, RAPHAEL
- WARREN, ELIZABETH
- WELCH, PETER
- WHITEHOUSE, SHELDON
- WYDEN, RONALD L.
Nay
- BANKS, JAMES E. HON.
- BARRASSO, JOHN A
- BLACKBURN, MARSHA MRS.
- BOOZMAN, SEN. JOHN
- BRITT, KATIE BOYD
- BUDD, THEODORE P
- CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE
- CASSIDY, WILLIAM M.
- CORNYN, JOHN SEN
- COTTON, THOMAS
- CRAMER, KEVIN MR.
- CRAPO, MICHAEL D
- CRUZ, RAFAEL EDWARD TED
- CURTIS, JOHN
- ERNST, JONI K
- FISCHER, DEBRA S.
- GRAHAM, LINDSEY O.
- GRASSLEY, CHARLES E
- HAGERTY, BILL
- HOEVEN, JOHN
- HUSTED, JON
- HYDE-SMITH, CINDY
- JOHNSON, RON HAROLD MR.
- JUSTICE, JAMES CONLEY II
- KENNEDY, JOHN NEELY
- LANKFORD, JAMES PAUL
- LEE, MIKE
- LUMMIS, CYNTHIA MARIE MRS.
- MARSHALL, ROGER W
- MCCONNELL, MITCH
- MCCORMICK, DAVE
- MOODY, ASHLEY
- MORAN, JERRY
- MORENO, BERNIE
- MULLIN, MARKWAYNE
- PAUL, RAND
- RICKETTS, PETE
- RISCH, JAMES E MR.
- ROUNDS, MIKE
- SCHMITT, ERIC
- SCOTT, RICK SEN
- SCOTT, TIMOTHY E.
- SHEEHY, TIM
- THUNE, JOHN R.
- TILLIS, THOM R SEN
- TUBERVILLE, THOMAS H
- WICKER, ROGER SEN.
- YOUNG, TODD CHRISTOPHER