House bill · 112th Congress · Did not become law
Physical Therapist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act of 2011
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 7, 2011
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 11, 2011 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1426.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. EMERSON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H2535):The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress to regulate commerce among the several States, as enumerated in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3.Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 174 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1426, 112th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/1426
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 25, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b84ff906087762198f21eb489608c2bdba40b7be97062dc3d03024a76839a499
PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
124 cosponsors — 47 Republicans, 77 Democrats
77 of 124 cosponsors (62%) are from the other party.
Rodney Alexander (R-LA), Jason Altmire (D-PA), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Steve Austria (R-OH), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Lou Barletta (R-PA), John Barrow (D-GA), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Jo Bonner (R-AL), Dan Boren (D-OK), Bruce Braley (D-IA), Corrine Brown (D-FL), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Michael Capuano (D-MA), André Carson (D-IN), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Ben Chandler (D-KY), Donna Christensen (D-VI), David Cicilline (D-RI), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Susan Davis (D-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and 94 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 112th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jo Emerson.
- H.R. 2434 (112th) Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2012
- H.R. 6020 (112th) Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2013
- H.Res. 298 (112th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that there is need for specified agencies to coordinate and capitalize on existing…
- H.J.Res. 13 (112th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States giving Congress power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of…
- H.R. 238 (112th) Military Retiree Health Care Relief Act of 2011
- H.Con.Res. 7 (112th) Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need to prevent the closure or consolidation of post offices.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.