House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Medical Student Education Authorization Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a grant program to award grants to accredited public institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Tom Cole R-OKWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 17, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 17, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5428.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 152, September 17, 2025, Page H4411):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 17, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
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- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5428, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5428
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 20, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 21, 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 October 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
19 cosponsors — 10 Republicans, 9 Democrats
9 of 19 cosponsors (47%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Stephanie Bice (R-OK), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Herbert Conaway (D-NJ), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Randy Fine (R-FL), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Michael Guest (R-MS), Mike Haridopolos (R-FL), Andy Harris (R-MD), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Nellie Pou (D-NJ), John Rutherford (R-FL), Darren Soto (D-FL), Dina Titus (D-NV), Eugene Vindman (D-VA), Robert Wittman (R-VA), Rudy Yakym (R-IN).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Tom Cole.
- H.R. 1968 (119th) Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
- H.R. 5371 (119th) Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026
- H.R. 6938 (119th) Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
- H.R. 7147 (119th) Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.
- H.R. 7148 (119th) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
- H.R. 7006 (119th) Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 21, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.