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Keep Head Start Funded Act of 2025 This bill provides FY2026 continuing appropriations to carry out Head Start programs without interruption during any period in which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2026 are not in effect (i.e., a government shutdown). The Head Start programs provide comprehensive early childhood education and development services to low-income children. The programs seek to promote school readiness through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services. This bill provides FY2026 appropriations to continue projects and activities under the programs that were funded in FY2025. The appropriations are available until the earliest of the enactment into law of legislation that provides appropriations (including continuing appropriations) for Head Start, the enactment into law of legislation that provides regular or continuing appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services without an appropriation for Head Start, or September 30, 2026. This bill must take effect as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2025.
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2025-11-06
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
2025-11-06
Introduced in Senate
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119 S3147 IS: Keep Head Start Funded Act of 2025 U.S. Senate 2025-11-06 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 3147 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 6, 2025 Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Mr. Markey , Mr. Wyden , Mr. Heinrich , Mr. Van Hollen , Mr. Reed , Mr. Luján , Mr. Welch , Mr. Kelly , Mr. Kim , Ms. Hassan , Mr. Bennet , Mr. Blumenthal , Mr. Warnock , Mrs. Shaheen , Ms. Smith , Mr. Sanders , Mr. Kaine , Ms. Alsobrooks , Mr. Coons , Mr. Schiff , Mr. Gallego , Mr. Padilla , Ms. Duckworth , Ms. Cortez Masto , Mrs. Murray , Mrs. Gillibrand , Mr. Booker , and Mr. Whitehouse ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations A BILL To provide for continuing appropriations for Head Start programs. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Keep Head Start Funded Act of 2025 . 2. Continuing appropriations for Head Start There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2026 are not in effect, such sums as are necessary for carrying out without interruption, under the authority and conditions provided for in division A of the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 ( Public Law 119–4 ), all projects or activities under the Head Start Act that were conducted in fiscal year 2025, and for which appropriations were made available by the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025. 3. Termination Appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act shall be available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) The enactment into law of an appropriation (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are made available in section 2. (2) The enactment into law of the regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act for the Department of Health and Human Services without any appropriation for such purpose. (3) September 30, 2026. 4. Charge to future appropriations Expenditures made pursuant to this Act shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is enacted into law. 5. Effective date This Act shall take effect as if enacted on September 30, 2025.
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