U.S. Representative — Florida's 12th District
Gus Bilirakis
Republican · Florida
Republican U.S. Representative for Florida's 12th congressional district. Member of the 119th Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Legislative Record
Recently sponsored bills (50 on record)
- H.R.9978 — Homeowners Premium Tax Reduction Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jul 30, 2026)
- H.R.9541 — FIREWALL Act (Introduced, Jun 30, 2026)
- H.R.9422 — Medicaid RAC Improvement Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jun 24, 2026)
- H.R.9089 — Commission on Sustaining Medicare and Social Security Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jun 2, 2026)
- H.R.8095 — Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for Children in Foster Care Act of 2026 (Introduced, Mar 26, 2026)
Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for Children in Foster Care Act of 2026 This bill allows states to receive federal Medicaid payment for services provided to foster care children in qualified residential treatment programs (i.e., programs with trauma-informed treatment models that address the needs of… - H.R.8000 — END 7-OH Act (Introduced, Mar 19, 2026)
- H.R.7863 — Promoting Fairness for Medicare Providers Act of 2026 (Introduced, Mar 9, 2026)
- H.R.7027 — Restore Veterans’ Compensation Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jan 13, 2026)
Recent floor votes (100 on record)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8884 — Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.Con.Res.89 — Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.Con.Res.113 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Aye on H.R.8800 — On Agreeing to the Amendment (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
Recently cosponsored bills (12 on record)
- H.R.9590 — SAFE for Manatees Act (Introduced, Jul 30, 2026)
- H.R.9915 — Stealth Bot Prohibition Act (Introduced, Jul 23, 2026)
- H.R.9892 — To require the United States Trade Representative to initiate an investigation under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to the European Union, and for other purposes. (Introduced, Jul 23, 2026)
- H.R.8471 — PRIMATE Act (Introduced, Jul 23, 2026)
- H.R.9893 — Stop Support for UNRWA Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jul 23, 2026)
- H.R.8476 — No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026 (Reported, Jul 22, 2026)
- H.R.9858 — To establish the Critical Minerals Innovation Partnership, and for other purposes. (Introduced, Jul 22, 2026)
- H.R.8239 — SACRED Act (Introduced, May 19, 2026)
Voting analysis
One of Gus Bilirakis's bills would set up a commission on sustaining Medicare and Social Security. Commissions are what legislatures reach for when a problem is arithmetically obvious and politically impossible — the mechanism exists to move a decision outside the ordinary process so that nobody has to own it first. Filing one is a statement that the problem is real and that the normal route is closed.
Of the 50 most recent of those, 47 currently sit at Introduced.
Health at the top
Health leads his classified subjects by a wide margin, and he chairs the commerce, manufacturing and trade panel at Energy and Commerce. That committee is now heavily represented on this site — its chair, its ranking member and several of its subcommittee leaders from both parties all have pages, and health tops the subject list on most of them regardless of which panel they run.
Sponsored bills carry the Congressional Research Service's own subject classification. Gus Bilirakis's cluster into: Health (19), Science, Technology, Communications (8), Armed Forces and National Security (6), Commerce (4), Crime and Law Enforcement (2), Education (2).
The other filings cover a homeowners premium tax reduction, student visa security, a recovery audit improvement for Medicaid, and one carrying an acronym.
Where he broke ranks
Every one of his departures sits on the amendment calendar. Two of the five were agreed to and three fell, and he switched direction between them rather than holding a consistent line. No completed bill appears in the record at all.
| Roll call | Date | Outcome | Their vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 261 | Jul 21, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 258 | Jul 21, 2026 | Agreed to | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.8469 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 174 | May 15, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.7567 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 148 | Apr 30, 2026 | Agreed to | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.7148 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 43 | Jan 22, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
Below the Florida Republicans
He sits well under the average of Florida's twenty House Republicans.
Among the 20 Republicans in the Florida delegation, the average rate of voting against the party majority is 6.1%. Gus Bilirakis is below that average at 2.3%.
Tenure and attendance
Ten terms since the second half of the two-thousands, and he did not miss a roll call.
First elected in 2007, now serving across 10 terms. Gus Bilirakis falls in the veteran cohort.
By the numbers
In the 119th Congress, Gus Bilirakis has 300 bills sponsored, 3068 cosponsored, 100 recent floor votes recorded.
Committee assignments
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce: Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade (Chair)
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce: Communications and Technology
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce: Health
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