S. 1277 · 119th Congress

IDEA Full Funding Act

Introduced on Apr 3, 2025 by Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). 40 cosponsors, all from the sponsor's party. Latest action (Apr 3, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Apr 3, 2025
Cosponsors
40
0 from the other party
Policy area
Education
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Progress

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  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

A bill to amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part.

Subjects

  • Education programs funding
  • Elementary and secondary education
  • Special education

Summary

The Congressional Research Service has not summarized this measure yet.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Chris Van HollenD-MDSponsor

Democrats · 39

Independents · 1

Roll calls

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No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

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  1. Apr 3, 2025Introduced in Senate
  2. Apr 3, 2025 · SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Committees

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Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION6 reports
    $2.1M reported (all issues)
  2. Autism Speaks6 reports
    $140K reported (all issues)
  3. National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)6 reports
    $500K reported (all issues)
  4. NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME CONGRESS5 reports
  5. National Association for Music Education5 reports
    $56K reported (all issues)
  6. National Association of School Nurses5 reports
    $70K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL NURSES, INCORPORATEDAI match · 100%
  7. CURE SMA4 reports
    $300K reported (all issues)
  8. ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS4 reports
    $170K reported (all issues)
  9. National Down Syndrome Society4 reports
    $200K reported (all issues)
  10. The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. (AOTA)4 reports
    $756K reported (all issues)
  11. American Federation of Teachers2 reports
    $890K reported (all issues)
  12. Easterseals, Inc.2 reports
    $15.2K reported (all issues)
  13. American Psychological Association Services Inc.(FKA American Psychological Assn1 report
    $400K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION$710.8K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  14. THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES1 report
    $50K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.