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H.R. 5581: Arts Education for All Act

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H.R. 5581: Arts Education for All Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-10-15 · Education · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-10-15 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Arts Education for All Act

Plain summary

Arts Education for All Act This bill expands arts education and programming for children in early education, K-12 students, and juveniles and adults in the criminal justice system. Specifically, the bill allows Child Care and Development Block Grant funding to be used for additional activities, including arts programming. Additionally, the bill addresses arts programming in elementary and secondary schools by directing each state educational agency to include information on arts programming in its state plan, including how it will integrate arts education instruction into the curriculum and increase the number of arts teachers in schools; requiring state report cards to include information on arts courses; requiring local educational agency (LEA) plans to describe how the LEA will encourage the use of arts education to improve student achievement; and allowing certain funds to be used for professional development for arts teachers. The bill directs the National Center for Education Research to carry out research on the use of arts and arts education in elementary and secondary schools, including in low-performing schools. Further, the National Center for Education Statistics must compile data on arts education. The National Assessment of Educational Progress must include a specified arts assessment. The bill requires a state's juvenile justice and delinquency plan to describe how the state will coordinate services and activities for juvenile justice and delinquency prevention with arts agencies and arts organizations. Additionally, grants for adult offender reentry demonstration projects may be used for facilitating arts education.

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Official text

Arts Education for All Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] · 55 cosponsors

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Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Deborah K. Ross (D-NC), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Dina Titus (D-NV), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Marc A. Veasey (D-TX), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Peter Welch (D-VT), Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Ed Case (D-HI), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Judy Chu (D-CA), Troy A. Carter (D-LA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), Alma S. Adams (D-NC), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] reported raising $1.0 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-hr5581 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117