A resolution recognizing the important work of the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
- Last Action
- 7/29/2025
Actions
- 2025-01-30Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 2025-01-30Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2025-01-30 (00)
Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act or the Keep Our PACT Act
This bill provides funding through FY2035 for grant programs operated by local educational agencies to provide supplementary educational and related services to low-achieving students and other students who attend elementary and secondary schools with relatively high concentrations of students from low-income families. Additionally, the bill permanently reauthorizes the grant program to assist states and outlying areas in providing special education and related services to children with disabilities.
The amounts provided by the bill are designated as an emergency requirement for the purposes of Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rules and other budget enforcement procedures.
Cosponsors (20)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
- John Reed (D-RI)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Edward Markey (D-MA)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Richard Durbin (D-IL)
- Cory Booker (D-NJ)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Michael Bennet (D-CO)
- Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
- Ben Luján (D-NM)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Subjects
- Appropriations
- Education programs funding
- Elementary and secondary education
- Special education
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