Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Prohibits the Secretary of Education from entering into new interagency agreements or otherwise transferring functions, programs, or activities of four specified Department of Education offices (Elementary and Secondary Education; Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; Postsecondary Education; and Indian Education) to other federal agencies. Bars intra-Department transfers of those offices’ functions followed by interagency arrangements.
Left emphasizes program integrity for special, Indian, and K–12 education.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly focused administrative/operational statute that imposes specific prohibitions on transfers of functions of enumerated Department of Education offices and establishes recurring, detailed cost-reporting requirements.
Prohibits the Secretary of Education from entering into new interagency agreements or otherwise transferring functions, programs, or activities of four specified Department of Education offices (Elementary and Secondary Education; Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; Postsecondary Education; and Indian Education) to other federal agencies.
Bars intra-Department transfers of those offices’ functions followed by interagency arrangements.
Exempts agreements in effect on February 1, 2025 (and substantially similar renewals).
Narrow administrative mandate with modest fiscal impact gives it some traction, but lack of broad coalition and potential executive branch pushback lower chances.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly focused administrative/operational statute that imposes specific prohibitions on transfers of functions of enumerated Department of Education offices and establishes recurring, detailed cost-reporting requirements.
Left emphasizes program integrity for special, Indian, and K–12 education.
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Left emphasizes program integrity for special, Indian, and K–12 education.
Generally supportive because the bill preserves education program integrity within the Department and protects specialized programs (special education, Indian education, K–12, postsecondary).
Values the required transparency on costs for interagency agreements.
May worry about unintended limits on collaborative service delivery with other agencies in specific cases.
Mixed but cautiously favorable to transparency requirements; concerned about a blunt statutory prohibition that may reduce administrative flexibility and create inefficiencies.
Would weigh the bill’s oversight benefits against potential operational costs and need for interagency cooperation.
Likely opposed because the bill constrains executive and agency flexibility to reorganize, pursue interagency efficiencies, or move functions out of the Department.
Sees the prohibition as entrenching a large federal agency and adding reporting burdens.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Narrow administrative mandate with modest fiscal impact gives it some traction, but lack of broad coalition and potential executive branch pushback lower chances.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Left emphasizes program integrity for special, Indian, and K–12 education.
Narrow administrative mandate with modest fiscal impact gives it some traction, but lack of broad coalition and potential executive branch…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly focused administrative/operational statute that imposes specific prohibitions on transfers of functions of enumerated Department of Education offices and…
Go beyond the headline summary with full stakeholder mapping, legislative design analysis, passage barriers, and lens-by-lens tradeoff breakdowns.