Bills / H.R. 5
H.R. 5 House Rules Resolution - House Standing Committees
- Introduced
- House committee (stopped here)
- House vote
What this bill does
This House rules resolution, in its latest substitute version, would create a new Family and Social Services committee in the House. The committee would take family-related bills from heavily loaded committees, such as education, and coordinate them.
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Official description
- removes the Education standing committee and replaces it with:
- the Higher Education standing committee
- the Public Education standing committee
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 6 yes, 1 no, 1 absentHouse Rules Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Feb 4, 2026Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Feb 4, 2026 House Rules Committee▶ WatchRead the transcript (22 turns) →