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The bill provides multi-year increases and predictability in federal special education funding—helping students with disabilities and local schools plan and expand services—while increasing mandatory spending and introducing timing, offset, and administrative constraints that could limit actual service gains or complicate budgeting.
Students with disabilities, their families, and local school districts will receive increased and multi-year predictable federal special education (Part B) funding from FY2026–FY2035, improving resource stability and enabling better planning for staff, services, and program expansion.
Low-income and high-need students with disabilities are more likely to get expanded supports and services because of the increased appropriations, improving access to federally funded special education supports.
States and local school districts gain multi-year funding certainty that helps them plan hiring, summer programs, and program expansion more effectively.
All taxpayers face a larger federal mandatory spending commitment, which could crowd out other priorities, increase pressure for higher appropriations elsewhere, or require more borrowing/tax adjustments.
Students and schools may still experience funding shortfalls if actual appropriations follow the lower appropriated floor rather than the higher authorized amounts, leaving gaps between authorized intent and available funds.
Budget-neutrality requirements could force offsets that constrain new or expanded services for students with disabilities, limiting the practical benefit of increased authorization levels.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Sets statutory funding floors and specific appropriated amounts for IDEA Part B (excluding section 619) for FY2026–FY2030 and establishes a formula for later years; funds subject to PAYGO.
Introduced April 2, 2025 by Jared Huffman · Last progress April 2, 2025
Sets mandatory federal funding floors and specific appropriation amounts for Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for fiscal years 2026–2030, and establishes a formula-based funding schedule for later years tied to counts of children with disabilities. Also requires that the newly prescribed appropriations comply with federal pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules.