House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Passed Senate
Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 41, United States Code, to prohibit minimum educational requirements for proposed contractor personnel in certain contract solicitations, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Nancy Mace R-SCWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 9, 2025
- Committee actionDec 2, 2025
- Passed HouseFeb 23, 2026 · by voice vote
- Passed SenateSep 30, 2026 · by unanimous consent
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 14, 2026 — Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5235.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5235, Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act of 2025” on February 13, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on December 2, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 13, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62118
- CBO publication date
- February 13, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5235, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5235
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 15, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b5918749b70eee9e20808384dd5b93a10f45b87b3b14ba6e586570ea2ac4b38d
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5235, Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act of 2025” on September 28, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on September 14, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 28, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62810
- CBO publication date
- September 28, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5235, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5235
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 15, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b5918749b70eee9e20808384dd5b93a10f45b87b3b14ba6e586570ea2ac4b38d
PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. MACE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 147, September 9, 2025, Page H4165):Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 9, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 41 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5235, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5235
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 15, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b5918749b70eee9e20808384dd5b93a10f45b87b3b14ba6e586570ea2ac4b38d
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 committee report (as of October 15, 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
2 cosponsors — 2 Democrats
2 of 2 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nancy Mace.
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- H.R. 872 (119th) Federal Contractor Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act of 2025
- H.R. 2985 (119th) Modernizing Government Technology Reform Act
- H.R. 5000 (119th) Cybersecurity Hiring Modernization Act
- H.R. 3455 (119th) Veterans Affairs Distributed Ledger Innovation Act of 2025
- H.R. 3246 (119th) Violet’s Law
Related bills
- S. 79 (119th) ACCESS ActRelated bill
- S. 4631 (118th) ACCESS ActCross-Congress related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.