{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases/spartz-introduces-legislation-increase-transparency-non-profit-hospitals", "Spartz Introduces Legislation to Increase Transparency of Non-Profit Hospitals", "2022-09-29", "2022", "2022-09", "Republican", "House", "IN", "Victoria Spartz", "S000929", "spartz.house.gov", "spartz", "https://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz (IN-05) introduced the Non-Profit Hospital Tax Exemption Transparency Act as part of her package to increase competition in health care.\n\nNon-profit hospitals have accumulated large monopoly powers in many health care markets, although, according to the 2021 Health Affairs study, they spend considerably less on charity care than for-profit hospitals. The current guidelines for community benefit qualifying hospitals for tax-exempt status are vague and could be abused by stakeholders.\n\nBased on multiple studies, including RAND studies performed by the Employers\u2019 Forum of Indiana, Indiana has some of the highest hospital prices and health care monopoly issues in the nation.\n\nThis legislation clarifies the standards by which non-profit hospitals can qualify for tax exemption.\n\nThe full legislative text can be viewed here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:08:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases/spartz-introduces-legislation-increase-transparency-non-profit-hospitals"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5329616144299507, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}