HR 2949 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

PSLF Payment Completion Fairness Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Apr 27, 2023 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedApr 27, 2023
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Public Service Loan Forgiveness Payment Completion Fairness Act or the PSLF Payment Completion Fairness Act

This bill removes the requirement that a borrower must be employed in a public service job at the time of loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.

Under the current PSLF program, the Department of Education must cancel the balance of interest and principal due on a borrower's Federal Direct Loans after the borrower makes 120 monthly loan payments while employed in a public service job and, at the time of loan forgiveness, the borrower is employed in a public service job. This bill removes the requirement that the borrower must be working in a public service job at the time of loan forgiveness.

Cosponsors 30

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 27, 2023 to Oct 8, 2024, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-PABrian K. FitzpatrickOriginalApr 27, 2023
D-DCEleanor Holmes NortonSep 13, 2023
D-NYJerrold NadlerSep 13, 2023
D-COJoe NeguseSep 18, 2023
D-NYYvette D. ClarkeSep 18, 2023
D-MDDavid J. TroneSep 19, 2023
D-KYMorgan McGarveySep 26, 2023
D-ILSean CastenSep 26, 2023
D-TXColin Z. AllredSep 27, 2023
D-NJJosh GottheimerSep 27, 2023
D-CAKevin MullinOct 2, 2023
D-FLMaxwell FrostOct 2, 2023
D-NHChris PappasOct 17, 2023
D-PAChristopher R. DeluzioOct 17, 2023
D-MAJames P. McGovernOct 17, 2023

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Apr 27, 2023Introduced in House
  2. Apr 27, 2023Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 1331PSLF Payment Completion Fairness ActIdentical billApr 10, 2024

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Apr 27, 2023Introduced in House

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