To amend the Financial Literacy and Education Improvement Act to include secondary schools in best practices for teaching financial literacy, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8126.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VALADAO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 71, April 23, 2024, Page H2629):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: This legislation would require FLEC to include best practices for teaching financial literacy in secondary schools.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 23, 2024 ↗

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  179 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8126, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8126

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  75fe80b005ec0e133a77c9dc4d3842c95cf28d4b140f25e390a5c4694593c8e8

  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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