Bill gives more money for world language and global study programs.
H.R. 9971 — Advancing International and Foreign Language Education Act · Filed by Deborah Ross (D-NC) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 27, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill gives more money to schools, nonprofits, and libraries. They use it for world language and global study programs. It creates new grants for research on how well U.S. schools teach these topics. It also funds new projects in language and area studies. Schools that get this money must also spend their own money. The bill sets up a database to track global study results.
Who it affects
Schools, nonprofits, and libraries get funding for world language programs. Students can take more world language and global study classes. Schools must match government money with their own funds.
One thing to notice
The Secretary of Education picks which languages get priority funding. Schools must prove their programs will keep going after government money stops.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 2 Democrats.
- Jul 27, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 27, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- database — a computer system that stores and tracks facts about global study programs
- match — a school must spend its own money to get government grant money
- Secretary of Education — the government official who runs the U.S. education department
- nonprofits — groups that are not run to make money for owners
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (24,478 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-23.
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