introduced the Health Savings Accounts (HSA) Consumer Protection Act to prevent the misuse of these accounts and to implement consumer protection guardrails against misleading junk fees
I will protect Health Savings Accounts from misuse and add consumer protection guardrails against misleading junk fees.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Doggett's official homepage listed a June 8, 2026 press release condemning DHS's waiver of environmental and historic preservation laws at Big Bend National Park, not an action on HSAs or junk fees.
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The same official homepage showed a May 12, 2026 video release introducing the 'Trade Responsibly for Environmental Emissions Act' (TREE Act), again with no visible HSA/junk-fee development in the current feed.
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H.R. 6183 was introduced by Doggett and referred to Ways and Means; the text would require substantiated HSA distributions and tax excessive HSA fees.
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The current eCFR edition contains FTC rules prohibiting hidden fees and misleading fees for covered live-event ticket and short-term lodging transactions.
Assessments
Doggett materially advanced the HSA portion by introducing H.R. 6183 in the 119th Congress to require substantiated HSA distributions and impose a tax on excessive HSA fees, but the record shows only introduction and committee referral, not enactment. Separately, federal FTC junk-fee guardrails are codified for covered live-event ticket and short-term lodging transactions during his same term, but they are not HSA-specific and the evidence does not show Doggett drove them. Because part of the promised consumer-fee outcome exists while the core Doggett HSA proposal has not passed, this warrants partial credit with an effort badge.
This was a two-part federal policy promise, and only part of it can be credited as achieved. During Doggett’s current House service, the federal government did add some junk-fee guardrails through FTC action requiring more up-front fee disclosure in ticketing and short-term lodging, so the anti-junk-fee portion saw partial same-term progress. But I found no evidence that Doggett personally secured an enacted HSA misuse reform, and no clear evidence that he materially authored or drove the junk-fee rule itself. Because one piece of the promise remains undelivered and the completed piece appears to owe more to broader executive action than to a Doggett-specific legislative accomplishment, full delivery is not justified.