House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Professional Degree Access Restoration Act
Official title: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reverse the reductions in Federal loan availability for graduate and professional students enacted under Public Law 119-21.
Sponsor: Rep. Ritchie Torres D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 11, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 11, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6677.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TORRES of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 209, December 11, 2025, Page H5811):Article 1, Section 8.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 11, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 21 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6677, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6677
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 25, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 26, 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 25, 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
51 cosponsors — 51 Democrats
0 of 51 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Gabe Amo (D-RI), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Ed Case (D-HI), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Shomari Figures (D-AL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Al Green (D-TX), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Pablo Hernández (D-PR), Val Hoyle (D-OR), Glenn Ivey (D-MD), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Julie Johnson (D-TX), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and 21 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.