House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
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Official title: To require institutions of higher education to adopt a policy relating to the provision of advisers for certain students, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Julia Brownley D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 23, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 23, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5545.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. BROWNLEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 156, September 23, 2025, Page H4494):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5545, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5545
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 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 September 19, 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
23 cosponsors — 23 Democrats
0 of 23 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Laura Friedman (D-CA), Jesús García (D-IL), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Lori Trahan (D-MA), Marc Veasey (D-TX), George Whitesides (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Julia Brownley.
- H.R. 659 (119th) Veterans Law Judge Experience Act of 2025
- H.R. 658 (119th) To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist…
- H.J.Res. 144 (119th) Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of…
- H.R. 4876 (119th) Reproductive Freedom for Veterans Act
- H.R. 210 (119th) Dental Care for Veterans Act
- H.R. 211 (119th) Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.