HB 2148 — Creating the pay it forward program.
Congress · introduced 2026-01-12
AN ACT Relating to creating the pay it forward program;
Latest action: 2026-01-12 — First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce.
Sponsors
- Reed, Julia (D, WA-36) — sponsor · 2026-01-12
- Parshley, Lisa (D, WA-22) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Dufault, Jeremie (R, WA-15) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Ramel, Alex (D, WA-40) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Berry, Liz (D, WA-36) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Cortes, Julio (D, WA-38) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Zahn, Janice (D, WA-41) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Scott, Shaun (D, WA-43) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Goodman, Roger (D, WA-45) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Hill, Natasha (D, WA-3) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Pollet, Gerry (D, WA-46) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
Action timeline
- · house — Prefiled for introduction.
- · house — First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce.
Text versions
No text versions on file yet — same ingest as the action timeline populates these. Each version has direct links to the XML / HTML / PDF at govinfo.gov.
Connected on the graph
Inbound (11)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-12 | Berry, Liz | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Cortes, Julio | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Dufault, Jeremie | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Goodman, Roger | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Hill, Natasha | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Parshley, Lisa | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Pollet, Gerry | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Ramel, Alex | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Reed, Julia | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Scott, Shaun | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Zahn, Janice | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reed, Julia (D, state_lower WA-36) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Berry, Liz (D, state_lower WA-36) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Cortes, Julio (D, state_lower WA-38) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Dufault, Jeremie (R, state_lower WA-15) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Goodman, Roger (D, state_lower WA-45) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Hill, Natasha (D, state_lower WA-3) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Parshley, Lisa (D, state_lower WA-22) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Pollet, Gerry (D, state_lower WA-46) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Ramel, Alex (D, state_lower WA-40) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Scott, Shaun (D, state_lower WA-43) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Zahn, Janice (D, state_lower WA-41) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Pollet, Gerry (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Berry, Liz (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Goodman, Roger (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Cortes, Julio (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · sponsored by Reed, Julia (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Ramel, Alex (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Parshley, Lisa (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Hill, Natasha (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Zahn, Janice (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Scott, Shaun (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Dufault, Jeremie (cosponsor) · sponsorship