House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
SOAR Act Improvements Act
Official title: To amend the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act to make improvements in the program for awarding school choice scholarships to students in the District of Columbia.
Sponsor: Rep. Virginia Foxx R-NCWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 8, 2025
- Committee actionSep 10, 2025
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 10, 2025 — Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 20.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5181.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5181, SOAR Act Improvements Act of 2025” on October 16, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 10, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 16, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61820
- CBO publication date
- October 16, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5181, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5181
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 20, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. FOXX, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 146, September 8, 2025, Page H3893):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 8, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 66 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5181, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5181
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 20, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
97ffe70abb8b49ffa5b90290f271e1791c97d14d666a01c0a4171335b56ac8e2
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of February 20, 2026). 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
0 of 1 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Virginia Foxx.
- H.R. 4795 (119th) Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act of 2026
- H.Res. 1014 (119th) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7148) making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30…
- H.Res. 1115 (119th) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 556) to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture from…
- H.Res. 1336 (119th) Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules.
- H.Res. 1423 (119th) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 139) to make daylight savings time permanent, and for other purposes; providing for…
- H.Res. 1438 (119th) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8800) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the…
Related bills
- S. 3710 (119th) SOAR Permanent Authorization ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.