Student Loan Tax Elimination Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1842.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMUCKER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 56, March 28, 2023, Page H1529):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause I of the U.S. Constitution (the Spending Clause) The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to eliminate origination fees on Federal Direct loans.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 28, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  217 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1842, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1842

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7842c4f0095ffc2a0d91cc861dab424438240c617a719cd90965931cf54711cb

  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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