S. 3253 119th Congress Senate

Servicemember Student Loan Affordability Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to extend the interest rate limitation on debt entered into during military service to debt incurred during… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to extend the interest rate limitation on debt entered into during military service to debt incurred during military service to consolidate or refinance student loans incurred before military service, and for other purposes.

Introduced: November 20, 2025 Introduced by: Richard J. Durbin Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov

Armed Forces and National Security

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Nov 20, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text: CR S8278)

Nov 20, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text: CR S8278)

Related & companion bills 1

Bill text 1 version

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Veterans' Affairs Committee
Senate

Lobbying activity 6

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
for PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
for PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
for PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA · District of Columbia · 1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
MILITARY OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
for MILITARY OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA · Virginia · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
for AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS · District of Columbia · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
for PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA · District of Columbia · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)

Bodies those filers lobbied

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
6 filings
SENATE
6 filings
Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
5 filings
Labor, Dept of (DOL)
5 filings
Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
5 filings
Veterans Employment & Training Service
5 filings
Administration on Aging
4 filings
AMTRAK - Natl Railroad Passenger Corporation
4 filings

A filing lists the bills it worked on and the parts of government it contacted in separate sections, so these are the bodies those filers named anywhere in the filing, not a per-bill breakdown.

Cosponsors 5

Luján, Ben Ray

New Mexico · Dec 11, 2025

Booker, Cory A.

New Jersey · Dec 1, 2025

Schiff, Adam B.

California · Dec 1, 2025

Duckworth, Tammy

Illinois · Nov 20, 2025

Gillibrand, Kirsten E.

New York · Nov 20, 2025

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3253: Servicemember Student Loan Affordability Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3253/

MLA

"S. 3253: Servicemember Student Loan Affordability Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3253/.

Bluebook (legal)

S. 3253, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3253/.

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