House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include certain employment as a health care practitioner as eligible for public service loan forgiveness, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 18, 2021
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 18, 2021 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1133.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HARDER of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 31, February 18, 2021, Page H537):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 & Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 18, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 85 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1133, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1133
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 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 July 21, 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
35 cosponsors — 13 Republicans, 22 Democrats
13 of 35 cosponsors (37%) are from the other party.
Karen Bass (D-CA), Ami Bera (D-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Judy Chu (D-CA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Pat Fallon (R-TX), John Garamendi (D-CA), Mike Garcia (R-CA), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Young Kim (R-CA), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Jay Obernolte (R-CA), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Scott Peters (D-CA), Katie Porter (D-CA), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and 5 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 16, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.