# Plain Language Summary of H.R. 2025

This bill would completely eliminate federal funding for the Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services program for the year 2024. In other words, it would set the budget for this program to zero dollars, meaning no money would be available to run it at all.

Rehabilitation Services is a federal program that helps people with disabilities get training, education, and support to find and keep jobs. This includes services like vocational training, counseling, job placement assistance, and other support to help people with disabilities become employed and independent. The program serves hundreds of thousands of Americans each year, from people recovering from injuries to those with long-term disabilities who want to work.

If this bill passed, all of these services would stop immediately. States that rely on federal funding to run their rehabilitation programs would have to shut them down or find other funding sources, which most couldn't do. People currently receiving job training, counseling, or placement services would lose access to those programs. This would particularly hurt people with disabilities who depend on these services to find employment and support themselves. Veterans with service-related disabilities, people recovering from accidents, and individuals with developmental or physical disabilities would all be affected.

The bill was introduced in March 2023 and referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, but there's no indication it gained significant support or moved forward in the legislative process.

To provide for a limitation on availability of funds for Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services for fiscal year 2024.

Biggs, Andy

 <p>This bill specifies that no FY2024 funding is authorized to be appropriated or made available for the Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services account.</p>