House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
TECH Act
Official title: To ensure that qualified technical schools offering certain career pathway and job training programs have the same access to Federal grants as 2-year and 4-year institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Mike Kennedy R-UTWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 24, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 24, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8051.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KENNEDY of Utah, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 55, March 24, 2026, Page H2676):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 24, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8051, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8051
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 16, 2026
- 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 June 16, 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
3 cosponsors — 3 Republicans
0 of 3 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Blake Moore (R-UT), Robert Onder (R-MO), Burgess Owens (R-UT).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mike Kennedy.
- H.R. 7831 (119th) License to Drill Act
- H.R. 1045 (119th) Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025
- H.R. 3425 (119th) Personnel Oversight and Shift Tracking Act of 2025
- H.R. 8658 (119th) Indian Health Service Emergency Claims Parity Act
- H.R. 4684 (119th) Star-Spangled Summit Act of 2026
- H.R. 1318 (119th) United States Research Protection Act
Related bills
- S. 4371 (119th) TECH ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.