S. 1203: What You Can Do For Your Country Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-04-11 · Education · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Where it came from: introduced 2019-04-11 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

What You Can Do For Your Country Act

Plain summary

What You Can Do For Your Country Act This bill revises the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, including by allowing borrowers with loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program to be eligible for the PSLF program, allowing borrowers to receive loan forgiveness on half of their total loans after satisfying 60 qualifying payment obligations, revising provisions related to loan consolidation, revising the types of payments that count toward qualifying payment obligations, defining full-time employment as 30 hours per week, requiring the Department of Education (ED) to provide certain notices to borrowers, revising the process for certification of employment, requiring ED to establish a database of qualifying employers, providing a process for borrowers to satisfy past monthly payment obligations, requiring lenders to provide to ED necessary borrower repayment history information, and requiring ED to establish a dispute resolution process.

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Official text

What You Can Do For Your Country Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] · 28 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Tim Kaine (D-VA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Cory A. Booker (D-NJ), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Tina Smith (D-MN), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Jack Reed (D-RI)

Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] reported raising $3.5 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
Congress.gov
Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116s1203.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/s>

Record fed-us-cong116-s1203 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116