House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
SERVICE Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedDec 18, 2024
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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Latest action: Dec 18, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10477.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COURTNEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 188, December 18, 2024, Page H7360):Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and reduce interest rates.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 18, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 187 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 10477, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/10477
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 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
2 cosponsors — 2 Democrats
0 of 2 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joe Courtney.
- H.R. 4508 (118th) Hidden Fee Disclosure Act of 2023
- H.R. 2663 (118th) Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
- H.R. 2998 (118th) Protecting America’s Workers Act
- H.Res. 334 (118th) Recognizing the significance of "Community College Month" as a celebration of more than 1,000 institutions throughout the United States…
- H.R. 4986 (118th) Student Loan Interest Elimination Act
- H.R. 5138 (118th) Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2023
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.