To prohibit funds made available to the Department of Education or the Department of Justice from being used to provide postsecondary courses in prisons.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4081.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COLLINS of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H1938):
  Article 1, Section 6, Clauses 1 and 18 of the Constitution of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated March 23, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  80 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4081, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/4081

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 23, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0fa525542993619340aecd6f4df6faad8de2efdda6cc5abc26f803c50539c532

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of March 23, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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