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Head Start Shutdown Protection Act of 2025

To require the reimbursement of State governments, local governments, and school districts by the Government for funds used by them to maintain participation in Head Start and Early Head Start during a Government shutdown.

Introduced Oct 17, 2025

Latest action (Oct 17, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Referred to
Education and Workforce Committee
Policy area
Education
Issues
Education

Summary

This bill entitles state governments, local governments, and school districts to federal reimbursement for funds they spend to maintain Head Start and Early Head Start program operations during a federal government shutdown when federal appropriations for these programs lapse. The reimbursement would be provided after the shutdown ends. This applies to the Head Start program and Early Head Start program authorized under the Head Start Act.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
55 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Maxine Waters’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • GUSTAR KAPLAN NUSBAUM PLLC $9,900
  • INVARIANT $8,300
  • SLA WORLDWIDE $6,950
  • MINDSET $6,800
  • EGAN-JONES RATINGS CO. $6,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Maxine Waters → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Oct 17, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
  2. Oct 17, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 3147 — Keep Head Start Funded Act of 2025 · Introduced Nov 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 78%
  • HR 5130 — Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2025 · Introduced Sep 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 5405 — Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2025 · Introduced Sep 16, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 5542 — End Government Shutdowns Act · Introduced Sep 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 7637 — Head Start for America’s Children Act · Introduced Feb 20, 2026 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 5552 — Eliminate Shutdowns Act · Introduced Sep 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Oct 17, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

October 17, 2025

Ms. Waters (for herself, Mr. Amo, Ms. Ansari, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Bell, Mr. Bishop, Ms. Budzinski, Mr. Carson, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Craig, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fields, Mr. Figures, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Horsford, Mr. Ivey, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Landsman, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mrs. McClain Delaney, Mrs. McIver, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Norton, Mr. Panetta, Ms. Randall, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Titus, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Torres of New York, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Velazquez, and Ms. Wilson of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce

A BILL

To require the reimbursement of State governments, local governments, and school districts by the Government for funds used by them to maintain participation in Head Start and Early Head Start during a Government shutdown.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Head Start Shutdown Protection Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. REIMBURSEMENT OF STATE AND LOCAL FUNDS USED TO MAINTAIN PARTICIPATION IN THE HEAD START PROGRAM, AND THE EARLY HEAD START PROGRAM, DURING LAPSE IN APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUCH PROGRAMS IN A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

A State, local government, or school district that uses its funds to maintain participation in the head start program, or the early head start program, under the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.) during any period of a Government shutdown in which there is a lapse in Federal appropriations for such program shall be entitled to reimbursement of such funds by the Government after the end of such shutdown. <all>

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