House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
POST Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 regarding proprietary institutions of higher education in order to protect students and taxpayers.
Sponsor: Rep. Steve Cohen D-TNWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 17, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 17, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4026.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COHEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 104, June 17, 2025, Page H2832):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 17, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4026, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4026
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 20, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 April 20, 2026). 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Steve Cohen.
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- H.R. 9401 (119th) Latonya Reeves Freedom Act of 2026
- H.R. 5451 (119th) Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2025
- H.R. 5427 (119th) Billionaires Income Tax Act
- H.R. 1056 (119th) To include the Czech Republic in the list of foreign states whose nationals are eligible for admission into the United States as E1…
Related bills
- S. 2107 (119th) POST Act of 2025Identical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.