Fair Student Loan Debt Collection Practices Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5287.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5287, Fair Student Loan Debt Collection Practices Act” on December 9, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on December 10, 2019”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 9, 2020 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56901

  CBO publication date

  December 9, 2020

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5287, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5287

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fedb4b88f6c3de421d3c55cb0533744426ef3dfdcd644bf1770a190090e100b9

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LAWSON of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 192, December 3, 2019, Page H9222):
  Article 1, Section 8: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof''.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 3, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  256 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5287, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5287

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fedb4b88f6c3de421d3c55cb0533744426ef3dfdcd644bf1770a190090e100b9

  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 committee report (as of July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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