To authorize the Secretary of Defense to enter into arrangements with institutions of higher education to provide dual or concurrent enrollment programs for students enrolled in schools operated by the Department of Defense Education Activity, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4020.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ADERHOLT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 104, June 17, 2025, Page H2832):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 17, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  31 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4020, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4020

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 21, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9dfc5ecba885628500d5463d0cdf0c5f7400316d17658fd12df4eab03ae4b661

  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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