House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
COURSE Credit Act
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Education to collect and report information on the treatment of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate course credits at institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Suhas Subramanyam D-VAWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 7, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 7, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6973.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SUBRAMANYAM, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 4, January 7, 2026, Page H135):Article I, Section 8 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 7, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 40 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6973, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6973
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 26, 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 January 26, 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
4 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 3 Democrats
1 of 4 cosponsors (25%) are from the other party.
Pablo Hernández (D-PR), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), James Walkinshaw (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Suhas Subramanyam.
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- H.Res. 456 (119th) Expressing support for the designation of the month of May 2025 as "Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Awareness Month".
- H.Res. 1318 (119th) Expressing support for the designation of the month of May 2026 as "Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Degeneration Awareness…
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.