House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Every Child Deserves a Head Start Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Head Start Act to protect Head Start from proposals to eliminate the program and restore the Head Start program's regional offices, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez D-NMWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 17, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 17, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5774.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 172, October 17, 2025, Page H4542):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (the Necessary and Proper Clause)Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 17, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 65 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5774, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5774
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 18, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 December 18, 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
36 cosponsors — 36 Democrats
0 of 36 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Shontel Brown (D-OH), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Judy Chu (D-CA), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Angie Craig (D-MN), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Sarah Elfreth (D-MD), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Laura Friedman (D-CA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), John Garamendi (D-CA), Jesús García (D-IL), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Pablo Hernández (D-PR), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Julie Johnson (D-TX), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Emily Randall (D-WA), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Andrea Salinas (D-OR), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI) and 6 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez.
- H.R. 4284 (119th) Small Cemetery Conveyance Act
- H.R. 4598 (119th) Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, and Aamodt…
- H.R. 9473 (119th) Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.R. 6049 (119th) No Payola Act
- H.Con.Res. 56 (119th) Recognizing the significance of equal pay and the disparity in wages paid to Latina women in comparison to White, non-Hispanic men.
- H.Con.Res. 123 (119th) Recognizing the disparity in wages paid to Latinas and the impact of that disparity on women, families, the economy, and the United States.
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.