S343Referred to Committee

Keep Our PACT Act

Share:
Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-01-30
Introduced
24
Cosponsors
S
ⓘ
Type

Sponsor

Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen
Democrat · MD · Senator
Votes with party: 85.8% (901 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/V000128

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (24)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

24 cosponsors on record at Congress.gov. The named list is syncing into Govwatch and will appear here shortly — view on Congress.gov in the meantime.

Latest Action

The most recent step in the bill's legislative path. Committee Activity below shows referrals and reports; the full action-by-action history including floor proceedings lives at Congress.gov →

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

2025-01-30

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Plain-English Summary

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.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Education
Full bill text is not yet cached locally.

Related legislation

Bills by the same sponsor or covering overlapping subjects.