Providing Distance Education for Foreign Institutions Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10404.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCHNEIDER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 185, December 12, 2024, Page H7143):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To make certain distance education programs offered by foreign institutions of higher education eligible to participate in federal student-aid programs.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 12, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  216 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 10404, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/10404

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2f184dbb3d1e0fe4d177d67e3b9e5d81397b54b369c4ecc7b684acf32ff3e3b2

  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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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