Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act
Latest action · Jan 13, 2026 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 379.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 15, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act
This bill makes changes to the Charter Schools Program (CSP), which authorizes competitive grants to state entities (e.g., state educational agencies and state charter school boards) to support high-quality charter schools.
Specifically, the bill allows state entities to use up to 5% of their CSP grant funds to make pre-charter planning subgrants to certain prospective charter applicants.
The bill specifies that state entities may also (1) fund a revolving loan fund or similar mechanisms for the expenses of eligible applicants prior to receiving CSP subgrants, and (2) provide assistance to eligible applicants in locating and accessing a charter school facility.
Under the current CSP, state entities must use at least 7% of their CSP grant funds to provide technical assistance to eligible applicants and authorized public chartering agencies. The bill instead allows state entities to use not more than 10% of these funds for technical assistance.
Cosponsors 17
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 15, 2025 to Sep 8, 2025; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-HI | Ed Case | Original | May 15, 2025 |
| D-HI | Jill N. Tokuda | Original | May 15, 2025 |
| R-AZ | Juan Ciscomani | Original | May 15, 2025 |
| R-CA | Kevin Kiley | Original | May 15, 2025 |
| R-SC | William R. Timmons IV | May 20, 2025 | |
| R-MI | John James | Jun 2, 2025 | |
| D-MI | Kristen McDonald Rivet | Jun 2, 2025 | |
| D-LA | Troy A. Carter | Jun 10, 2025 | |
| R-CA | Ken Calvert | Jun 17, 2025 | |
| R-IN | Mark B. Messmer | Jun 25, 2025 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Jul 14, 2025 | |
| R-PA | Daniel Meuser | Sep 2, 2025 | |
| R-GA | Earl L. "Buddy" Carter | Sep 2, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Josh Harder | Sep 2, 2025 | |
| R-OK | Tom Cole | Sep 3, 2025 | |
| R-FL | Laurel M. Lee | Sep 8, 2025 | |
| R-WA | Michael Baumgartner | Sep 8, 2025 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred May 15, 2025Markup Jun 25, 2025Reported Jan 13, 2026 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 13, 2026Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Workforce. H. Rept. 119-443.
- Jan 13, 2026Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 379.
- Jun 25, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jun 25, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 15.
- May 15, 2025Introduced in House
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Aug 1, 2025H.R. 3453, Empower Charter School Educators to Lead ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and Workforce on June 25, 2025
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 82, May 15, 2025, page H2105.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2026371 pages | Appropriations Committee | May 14, 2025–May 21, 2025 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1795 | Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act | Identical bill | May 15, 2025 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To modify the program of grants to support high-quality charter schools.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 13, 2026Reported in House
- May 15, 2025Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
