Degrees Not Debt Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7488.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARBAJAL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 37, February 29, 2024, Page H773):
  This bill is enacted pursuant to Section 8 of Article 1 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Higher Education Legislation
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 29, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  161 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7488, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7488

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  337f4d7697f9d7d9bcd93c2a7ce8b6cc5204099bd11fd57c927dd5c451884fc0

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7488, last updated July 21, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.