About the bill
6/17/2013: In what could become an annual occurrence, Congress yet again faces a looming deadline to resolve the problem of student loan interest rates. Without Congressional action, the rate on federally backed Stafford loans is set to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1.
The Senate in early June failed to advance two bills meant to prevent this imminent increase in rates. A bill backed by Democrats would extend the current interest rate for two years, and offset the cost by ending three tax breaks. A GOP bill would peg all newly issued student loans to the U.S. Treasury 10-year borrowing rate plus 3 percentage points. Given the current Treasury rate of 1.75 percent, a student taking out a loan this coming school year would pay 4.75 …
Sponsor and status
113th Congress (2013–2015)
This bill was introduced on March 21, 2013, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
Although this bill was not enacted, its provisions could have become law by being included in another bill. It is common for legislative text to be introduced concurrently in multiple bills (called companion bills), re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress in new bills, or added to larger bills (sometimes called omnibus bills).
54 Cosponsors (54 Democrats)
Position statements
What legislators are saying
“congresswoman frederica Wilson fights for students by protecting low interest rates on federal loans”
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Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL24]
(Co-sponsor)
on May 23, 2013
“congresswoman frederica Wilson fights for students by protecting low interest rates on federal loans”
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Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL24]
(Co-sponsor)
on May 23, 2013
History
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Mar 21, 2013
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Introduced
Bills and resolutions are referred to committees which debate the bill before possibly sending it on to the whole chamber. |
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Jun 15, 2016
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Reintroduced Bill —
Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 5487 (114th). |
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Feb 16, 2017
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Reintroduced Bill —
Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 1127 (115th). |
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Jun 13, 2019
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Reintroduced Bill —
Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 3257 (116th). |
H.R. 1330 (113th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
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Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 1330. This is the one from the 113th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 113th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2013 to Jan 2, 2015. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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