House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
PACE Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 18, 2014
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 17, 2014 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5533.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. POCAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H7888):Article I, Section 1, All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.Source: Congress.gov, record updated March 23, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 173 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5533, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/5533
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 23, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 March 23, 2026). 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
12 cosponsors — 12 Democrats
0 of 12 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Karen Bass (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), John Conyers (D-MI), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), George Miller (D-CA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Jose Serrano (D-NY), Frederica Wilson (D-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mark Pocan.
- H.R. 2839 (113th) Restore Honor to Service Members Act
- H.R. 3135 (113th) Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2013
- H.R. 4622 (113th) Federal Student Loan Refinancing Act
- H.J.Res. 44 (113th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right to vote.
- H.R. 5239 (113th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income any discharge of student loan indebtedness.
- H.R. 5451 (113th) Next Generation Research Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.