House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
LOANS for Biomedical Research Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 5, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 8, 2024 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7539.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FITZPATRICK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 39, March 5, 2024, Page H822):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Secretary of the Treasury to guarantee BioBonds in order to provide funding for loans to eligible biomedical companies and universities to carry out clinical trials approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and for other purposes.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 5, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 324 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7539, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7539
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 21, 2024
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of August 21, 2024). 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
8 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 6 Democrats
6 of 8 cosponsors (75%) are from the other party.
Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Mike Levin (D-CA), Bradley Schneider (D-IL), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Jill Tokuda (D-HI).
More from the sponsor
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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.