House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
POST GRAD Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedOct 26, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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Latest action: Oct 26, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6077.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. CHU, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 177, October 26, 2023, Page H5175):Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reinstate the authority of the Secretary of Education to make Federal Direct Stafford Loans to graduate and professional students.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 26, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 253 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6077, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6077
- 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
21 cosponsors — 21 Democrats
0 of 21 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Donald Beyer (D-VA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), John Garamendi (D-CA), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Scott Peters (D-CA), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Jill Tokuda (D-HI), David Trone (D-MD), Juan Vargas (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Judy Chu.
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- H.R. 4326 (118th) PRIDE Act of 2023
- H.R. 4897 (118th) Asunción Valdivia Heat Illness, Injury, and Fatality Prevention Act of 2023
- H.R. 9244 (118th) NO BAN Act
- H.R. 6961 (118th) Nutrition CARE Act of 2024
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.