To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide for additional activities, resources, and data collection with respect to English learners, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3138.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ESPAILLAT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 78, May 9, 2023, Page H2172):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 The Congress shall have Power to . . . provide for the . . . general Welfare of the United States; . . . The single subject of this legislation is: This legislation would allow ESSA funds to be used to provide educators and administrators with culturally competent educational training to support immigrants students and multi-language learners.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 9, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  376 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3138, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3138

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  aadf04ab638d9c7f81fc5733763ba1bfb97d5637f15267d6d7a6ec756f11eb03

  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 July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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