YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyTransparency & AccountabilityWorkers & JobsBlocks the Education Department from moving special-ed and student-aid work to other agencies — even signed deals.
Your Money
Special education, student aid, Indian education, and K-12 program work could not move to another agency. This would block even a deal already signed. Deals from before February 1, 2025 could stay.
Transparency & Accountability
The department would have to post a cost report for each deal. The first is due two weeks after the bill passes, then every three months. If the Secretary skips a report, the department could not pay for the Secretary's own travel.
Workers & Jobs
The cost report must show how many workers are laid off or moved when work shifts to another agency. It must also show what the move costs.
More about this bill
If this bill passes, some Education Department offices could not move to other agencies. That means special education help, student aid, and Indian education programs would stay at the department. The Secretary could not hand that work elsewhere. That is true even for a deal already signed. Deals from before February 1, 2025 would still count. So would renewals on the same terms. The department would also have to report what each deal costs. The first report is due two weeks after the bill passes, then every three months. Reports go to Congress and get posted online. If the Secretary skips a report, the department cannot pay for the Secretary's own travel.
Congressional Summary
This bill prohibits the Department of Education (ED) from transferring specified offices and functions to other federal agencies. Specifically, the bill prohibits ED from entering into or carrying out interagency agreements related to the following four offices: the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, the Office of Postsecondary Education, the Office of Indian Education, and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. This prohibition applies to the transfer of functions such as administering or operating programs, making grants, carrying out technical assistance, enforcing rights and requirements (e.g., data collection requirements), conducting administrative and oversight functions, and monitoring grantees. Additionally, ED may not transfer a function or program of one of the four offices to another ED office and then subsequently enter into an interagency agreement related to the function or program. The bill does not apply to agreements in effect on February 1, 2025, or renewals with substantially similar terms. ED must, within two weeks of the bill's enactment and on a quarterly basis, provide to Congress (and publish on its website) a report and cost analysis for each interagency agreement entered into on or after February 1, 2025. ED may not use specified FY2026 or FY2027 funds for travel expenses unless ED provides this required information. (As of July 30, 2026, ED has entered into 14 interagency agreements to transfer functions of ED to other federal agencies, including the ED offices listed in the bill.)
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-09-02
- Date Added
- 2026-09-19
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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