House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Securing Our Students Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 9, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 9, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 887.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. OWENS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 27, February 9, 2023, Page H826):Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: EducationSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 9, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 95 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 887, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/887
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
10 cosponsors — 10 Republicans
0 of 10 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Cliff Bentz (R-OR), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Chris Stewart (R-UT), Thomas Tiffany (R-WI), David Valadao (R-CA), Robert Wittman (R-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Burgess Owens.
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- H.R. 2685 (118th) Mining Schools Act of 2024
- H.R. 4144 (118th) FAIR Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.