To prohibit the provision of Federal funds to a local educational agency that imposes or enforces a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on students at the schools served by such agency.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5691.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VAN DREW, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 163, October 3, 2025, Page H4517):
  Article I Section VIII
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 3, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  22 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5691, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5691

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 10, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  35ed6c599b0e1651b7a16892dbdd92622ecd9d71855e1b53223d8d2948080080

  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 December 10, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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