119th Congress
H.R. 369
States’ Education Reclamation Act of 2025
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became law
- Sponsor
- David Rouzer(R-NC)
- Introduced
- Jan 13, 2025
- Policy area
- Education
- Committees
- House Committee on Education and Workforce
- Official text
- Introduced in House · Congress.gov page
Cosponsors (12)
Added later (12)
- Chuck Edwards (R-NC) · Feb 5, 2025
- Andy Harris (R-MD) · Mar 6, 2025
- Jack Bergman (R-MI) · Mar 10, 2025
- Addison P. McDowell (R-NC) · Mar 14, 2025
- Brad Knott (R-NC) · Mar 18, 2025
- Barry Moore (R-AL) · Mar 26, 2025
- Joe Wilson (R-SC) · Mar 27, 2025
- Daniel Meuser (R-PA) · Apr 9, 2025
- Ashley Hinson (R-IA) · Apr 28, 2025
- David J. Taylor (R-OH) · May 7, 2025
- Craig A. Goldman (R-TX) · Aug 5, 2025
- W. Gregory Steube (R-FL) · Aug 8, 2025
Summary
Summary by the Congressional Research Service· describes the “Introduced in House” version
States' Education Reclamation Act of 2025
This bill abolishes the Department of Education (ED) and repeals any program for which it has administrative responsibility.
The Department of the Treasury must provide grants to states, for FY2025-FY2033, for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education purposes permitted by state law. The level of funding is set at the amount provided to states for federal elementary and secondary education programs and the amount provided for federal postsecondary education programs, respectively, for FY2025, minus the funding provided for education programs that the bill transfers to other federal agencies.
States must contract for an annual audit of their expenditures or transfers of grant funds.
Program administrative responsibility and delegation of authority are transferred as follows:
• ED's job training programs to the Department of Labor,
• each special education grant program under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
• ED's Indian education programs to the Department of the Interior,
• each Impact Aid program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to the Department of Defense,
• the Federal Pell Grant program and each federal student loan program to Treasury, and
• programs under the jurisdiction of the Institute of Education Sciences or the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program to HHS.
The Government Accountability Office must report to Congress on (1) the feasibility of reducing the federal tax burden and eliminating federal involvement in providing grants for education programs, and (2) the feasibility of successor federal agencies maintaining transferred education programs.
Roll-call votes
No recorded votes on this bill.
Actions
- Jan 13, 2025 · House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. - Jan 13, 2025
Introduced in House