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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced January 30, 2025 by Christopher Van Hollen · Last progress January 30, 2025
Keep Our PACT Act
Provides multi-year, mandatory federal funding guarantees for K‑12 Title I Part A grants and for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, excluding the section 619 preschool part). It sets specific annual funding amounts and a FY2035 funding floor, instructs how to compute and make payments for FY2026–2035 (and beyond for IDEA), and labels the added or changed funding as an "emergency requirement" for PAYGO and congressional budget enforcement rules.
The law is meant to lock in more predictable funding for low-income student grants and special education, implement a commitment to a target share of per‑pupil spending for students with disabilities, and change how these amounts interact with budget rules by giving them emergency status.
IDEA Full Funding Act
