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H.R. 4134: Keeping Girls in School Act

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H.R. 4134: Keeping Girls in School Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-06-24 · International Affairs · Latest: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-06-24 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-21] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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What does this mean?

Official title

Keeping Girls in School Act

Plain summary

Keeping Girls in School Act This bill authorizes the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to enter into agreements to address social, cultural, health, and other barriers that adolescent girls face in accessing quality secondary education. The USAID shall seek to ensure that such activities meet various requirements related to monitoring and evaluating outcomes, collecting data, and using specified indicators and methodologies for international basic education. The Department of State shall periodically update and report to Congress a publicly available U.S. global strategy to empower adolescent girls, and the USAID shall periodically report to Congress on the activities initiated under this bill and efforts to monitor and evaluate such activities.

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Official text

Keeping Girls in School Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-21] · 106 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 4134, Keeping Girls in School Act (2022-10-03)

Cosponsors on this site

Robin L. Kelly (D-IL), Young Kim (R-CA), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Mike Kelly (R-PA), John R. Moolenaar (R-MI), James P. McGovern (D-MA), John H. Rutherford (R-FL), Sean Casten (D-IL), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Josh Harder (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), William R. Keating (D-MA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Ed Case (D-HI), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), David G. Valadao (R-CA), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA) and 46 more.

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-21] reported raising $2.6 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr4134 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117