YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyTransparency & AccountabilityWould keep special-ed, financial-aid, and Indian-education work at the Education Department, not outsourced elsewhere.
Your Money
The ban covers deals the Department already has, not just new ones. It also blocks a trick: moving the work to a different office first, then handing it off.
Transparency & Accountability
ED must report to Congress within 14 days, then every quarter, and post it online too. Each report lists deal costs since February 1, 2025, and skipping one costs ED some travel money.
More about this bill
The Education Department could not move four programs to other agencies. That means families who use special education, financial aid, Indian education, or K-12 grant programs would keep dealing with the same agency. This rule covers deals it has now, not just new ones. It also could not shift that work to a different office first, then farm it out later. Older deals from before February 1, 2025, could stay in place. So could renewals on similar terms. Starting 14 days after this becomes law, the Secretary must report to Congress. The Secretary must report again every quarter after that. Each report goes online too, so anyone can read it. It must list costs for every ED deal made since February 1, 2025. That covers costs like staff moves, new tech, and job cuts. Skipping a report would cost the Department some travel money for 2026 and 2027.
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 14 days 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.)
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Reported to Senate
- Action Date
- 2026-08-04
- Date Added
- 2026-09-19
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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