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| 98-s-3079 | 98 | s | 3079 | A bill to clarify the meaning of the phrase "program or activity" as applied to educational institutions that are extended Federal financial assistance, and for other purposes. | Education | 1984-10-05 | 1984-10-23 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, Justice Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Dole, Robert J. [R-KS] | KS | R | D000401 | 3 | Amends title IX (Prohibition of Sex Discrimination) of the Educational Amendments of 1972, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and title VI (Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to specify that education institutions receiving Federal financial assistance are included within prohibitions against discrimination. Provides that, for purposes of such Acts, notwithstanding the Supreme Court decisions in Grove City and others against Bell, Secretary of Education, and in North Haven against Bell, the phrase "program or activity" shall, as applied to educational institutions which are extended Federal financial assistance, mean the educational institution. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/3079 |
| 98-s-3027 | 98 | s | 3027 | Head Start Reauthorization Act | Education | 1984-09-26 | 1984-10-30 | See S. 2565. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 1 | Head Start Reauthorization Act - Amends the Head Start Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for programs under the Act through FY 1986. Requires the Secretary of Education to reserve for training and technical assistance for each fiscal year funds which are not less than the amount spent for such activities under the Act in FY 1982. Provides that such minimum reservation shall not apply in any fiscal year in which the appropriation for the Head Start program is less than the amount appropriated for FY 1984. Revises provisions for designation of Head Start agencies. Requires that the designated agency be in the community which it serves. Requires the Secretary to give priority in the designation of such agencies to any local public or private nonprofit agency (or its successor agency) receiving funds under any Head Start program on a specified date, unless the Secretary makes a finding that the agency involved fails to meet program and fiscal requirements established by the Secretary. Requires that any such designation be governed by the same program and fiscal requirements, criteria, and standards as are applicable to existing Head Start programs. Requires that specified provisions relating to the initial designations of Head Start agencies be applied by the Secretary in the distribution of any additional appropriations made available under the Act during any fiscal year. Permits each Head Start program operated in a community to provide more than one year of Head Start services to children from age three to the age of compulsory school attendance in the State in which the Head Start program is located. Requires the Secretary to provide technical assistance and training in connection with Head Start programs. (Under current law, the Secretary is authorized to provide such technical assistance and training.) Requires that such training activities include: (1) a centralized child development training and national assessment program, which may be administered at the State and local level, leadin… | 2025-08-29T17:39:22Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/3027 |
| 98-s-3029 | 98 | s | 3029 | A bill to provide for the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Fine Arts Center to be established by the Bethune-Cookman College in Volusia County, Florida. | Education | 1984-09-26 | 1984-10-09 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB, GAO. | Senate | Sen. Hawkins, Paula [R-FL] | FL | R | H000374 | 0 | Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to the Bethune-Cookman College in Volusia County, Florida, to establish the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Fine Arts Center. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/3029 |
| 98-s-2998 | 98 | s | 2998 | Gifted and Talented Children's Education Act | Education | 1984-09-17 | 1984-09-25 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB, GAO. | Senate | Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | I000025 | 0 | Gifted and Talented Children's Education Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to add this Act as part A (Gifted and Talented Children) of title IX (Additional Programs) of ESEA. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for programs for gifted and talented children. Directs the Secretary of Education to reserve 15 percent of such appropriations or $3,000,000, whichever is larger, for carrying out discretionary programs. Requires that the remainder of such appropriations be available for State programs. Sets forth provisions for State programs. Directs the Secretary to make grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) for the Federal share of the costs of planning, developing, operating, and improving programs to meet the educational needs of gifted and talented children at the preschool, elementary, and secondary levels. Permits such programs to include: (1) inservice training of personnel to teach such children; (2) demonstration programs designed to develop special techniques for teaching such children, and assessments of such programs; and (3) State leadership programs to assist in extending programs for such children throughout the State. Directs the Secretary to allot such funds in accordance with specified provisions. Requires SEA applications for such grants to contain specified assurances, including the assurance that appropriate consideration will be given to the particular educational needs of disadvantaged gifted and talented children. Prohibits a SEA from reserving more than ten percent of grant funds for program administration, technical assistance, coordination, and statewide planning. Requires a SEA to distribute, on a competitive basis, at least 90 percent of grant funds to local educational agencies (LEAs) which apply, with due regard for the quality of the proposed activities. Requires a SEA to use at least 50 percent of grant funds for programs and projects which include a component for the identification and education of disadvantaged gifted and… | 2025-08-29T17:39:34Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2998 |
| 98-s-2942 | 98 | s | 2942 | State Merit Grants Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-08-09 | 1984-08-09 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Bradley, Bill [D-NJ] | NJ | D | B001225 | 0 | State Merit Grants Act of 1984 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to extend through FY 1987 the authorization of appropriations for the program of Grants to States for State Student Incentives. Provides for an additional authorization of appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 under such program for grants to students based on merit. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to pay a State one-third of the amount of such merit-based student grants under a State program which meets specified requirements. Requires that such State program be administered by a single State agency under specified HEA provisions. Limits each such merit-based student grant to no more than $2,000 per academic year for full-time attendance at an institution of higher education. Requires that merit-based student grant recipients be selected on the basis of criteria established by the State. Requires that, effective with respect to any academic year beginning on or after October 1, 1978, all nonprofit institutions of higher education in the State be eligible to participate in such State's program, except where such participation is in violation of a State constitution or a State statute enacted prior to such date. Requires that the payment of the non-Federal portion of such grants be from non-Federal sources including, when applicable, private resources. Sets forth auditing and reporting requirements for such State programs. | 2025-08-29T17:37:50Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2942 |
| 98-s-2915 | 98 | s | 2915 | Federal Merit Scholarship Act | Education | 1984-08-08 | 1984-08-08 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Byrd, Robert C. [D-WV] | WV | D | B001210 | 3 | Federal Merit Scholarship Act - Amends the Higher Eduation Act of 1965 to establish a Federal Merit Scholarship Program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to States to enable States to award scholarships to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and who show promise of continued academic achievement. Provides that such scholarships shall be awarded for a period of one academic year for the first year of study at any institution of higher education which the student chooses to attend. Provides for allocation of program funds to each State according to a formula based on the number of individuals in the State eligible for such scholarships. Sets forth requirements for program agreements between the Secretary and each State desiring to participate in such scholarship program. Requires that each student awarded such a scholarship: (1) be a graduate of a public or private secondary school; (2) have been admitted for enrollment at an institution of higher education; and (3) show promise of continued academic achievement, pursuant to criteria established by the Secretary. Authorizes the State educational agency (SEA) to establish the criteria for the selection of merit scholars. Directs the SEA to adopt selection procedures designed to assure that ten individuals will be selected from among residents of each congressional district in a State (and in the case of the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico not to exceed ten individuals selected in such District or Commonwealth). Provides that each student awarded a merit scholarship shall receive a stipend of $1,500 for the academic year of study for which it is awarded. Directs the SEA to establish procedures under which merit scholars establish that they are maintaining satisfactory proficiency and devoting full time to the course of study for which the scholarship was awarded. Directs the SEA to make arrangements to award merit scholarships at a place in each State which is convenient to the individuals … | 2025-08-29T17:38:18Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2915 |
| 98-s-2919 | 98 | s | 2919 | Continuing Education Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-08-08 | 1984-08-08 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 0 | Continuing Education Act of 1984 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to revise title I provisions. Retitles title I (currently "Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning") as "Postsecondary Continuing Education." Retitles and replaces title I part A (currently "Commission on National Development in Postsecondary Education") with new provisions for "Postsecondary Education Innovation and Outreach Grants." Sets forth the types of individuals for which such title I part A program is designed. Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a program, in accordance with such part A, to assist eligible postsecondary institutions to establish programs to enhance the educational opportunities available to adult learners. Directs the Secretary, from specified sums, to award grants to institutions with applications meeting specified criteria for such assistance. Makes institutions of higher education, and combinations of such institutions, eligible for such part A assistance if the Secretary determines that specified conditions are met. Sets forth permissible uses of such part A grant funds. Sets the maximum award that may be made to a single applicant under part A for any three-fiscal-year period at $150,000. Retitles and replaces part B (currently "Education Outreach Programs") with new provisions for "Postsecondary Continuing Education Research and Research Application Grants." Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education and combinations of such institutions to carry out part B research and research application programs. Sets forth authorized uses of funds under such part B. Sets forth application requirements for such part B assistance. Sets the maximum award that may be made to a single applicant under part B at $400,000 for any fiscal year, and $2,000,000 over five years. Retains (under a new part C) provisions for the National Advisory Council on Continuing Education. Updates the required commencement date for the Council's annual re… | 2025-08-29T17:41:00Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2919 |
| 98-s-2910 | 98 | s | 2910 | Grove City Reversal Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-08-07 | 1984-08-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 5 | Grove City Reversal Act of 1984 - Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to include educational institutions receiving federal financial assistance within the prohibition against sex discrimination. Provides that the term "any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance" in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shall be construed without reference to "any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance" in the Education Amendments of 1972. | 2025-08-29T17:37:43Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2910 |
| 98-s-2884 | 98 | s | 2884 | Sex Discrimination Prohibition Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-07-30 | 1984-08-01 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] | IA | R | G000386 | 0 | Sex Discrimination Prohibition Act of 1984 - Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to include educational institutions receiving Federal financial assistance within the prohibition against sex discrimination. | 2025-08-29T17:39:20Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2884 |
| 98-s-2870 | 98 | s | 2870 | Higher Education Amendments of 1984 | Education | 1984-07-26 | 1984-08-01 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB, GAO. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 0 | Higher Education Amendments of 1984 - Title I: Institutional Aid - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to repeal part B (Aid to Institutions With Special Needs) of title III (Institutional Aid) of the Act. Adds the purpose of helping meet eligible institutions' special needs to the enumeration of purposes of part A (Strengthening Institutions) of title III of the Act. Revises the definitions of "eligible institution" and "full-time equivalent students" for purposes of part A. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to also consider specified factors in determining whether an institution is an eligible institution for purposes of part A. Increases to five years the maximum period for which a grant to an eligible institution under part A may be made. Provides that one-year grants to assist in preparation of plans and applications under part A may be awarded only to institutions which have not received such a grant for any prior fiscal year. Sets forth provisions for a Federal share of the costs of part A grants which shall decrease from 100 percent for the first two years to 90 percent for the third year, 80 percent for the fourth year, and 70 percent for the fifth year an institution receives such a grant. Sets forth transition provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to make continuation awards under part A to any eligible institution which received a multiple year grant awarded prior to October 1, 1984, under part A or part B grant authority as in effect on September 30, 1984. Prohibits any institution from receiving a grant under this continuation award provision or under: (1) part A grant authority as in effect on September 30, 1984, for a period of more than seven years in the aggregate; and (2) part B grant authority as in effect on September 30, 1984, for a period of more than five years in the aggregate. Makes an institution which has received a continuation award for such maximum period ineligible to receive a grant under part A. Redesignates part C of title III of the Act as part B of title II… | 2025-08-29T17:38:22Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2870 |
| 98-s-2871 | 98 | s | 2871 | Chapter 1 Improvement Amendments of 1984 | Education | 1984-07-26 | 1984-08-01 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB, GAO. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 0 | Chapter 1 Improvement Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to eliminate the requirement that the Secretary of Education allocate funds for basic grants to local educational agencies on the basis of a specified formula involving data from the 1975 survey of income and education conducted by the Bureau of the Census. Directs the Secretary to use the criteria of poverty from the most recent available decennial census in determining the number of children to be counted for purposes of such grants. Makes a technical amendment deleting the adjective "nonfarm," in order to conform to current census data language. Reduces (from five years to three years for FY 1985 and to two years thereafter) the maximum period of continuation of migratory status for a child of a migratory agricultural worker or migratory fisherman who resides in the area served by the State or local educational agency carrying on this program for migratory children. Removes the minimum amount required to be reserved for coordination of activities under the migrant education programs (but retains the maximum limit on any such reservation of funds). | 2025-08-29T17:42:01Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2871 |
| 98-s-2859 | 98 | s | 2859 | Handicapped Children's Protection Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-07-24 | 1984-07-30 | Referred to Subcommittee on Handicapped (Labor and Human Res.). | Senate | Sen. Weicker, Lowell P., Jr. [R-CT] | CT | R | W000253 | 13 | Handicapped Children's Protection Act of 1984 - Amends the Education of the Handicapped Act to authorize the award of a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs to a parent or legal representative of a handicapped child or youth who is the prevailing party in a civil suit under such Act to protect the child's right to a free appropriate public education. Provides that such amendment shall apply to actions and proceedings brought on or after July 4, 1984, and actions and proceedings brought prior to such date which were pending on such date. Provides that nothing in the Education of the Handicapped Act shall be construed to restrict or limit the rights, procedures, and remedies under the Constitution, title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, or other Federal statutes prohibiting discrimination. | 2025-08-29T17:40:33Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2859 |
| 98-s-2847 | 98 | s | 2847 | A bill to eliminate the asset criteria for the needs test under the guaranteed student loan program. | Education | 1984-06-29 | 1984-06-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Boschwitz, Rudy [R-MN] | MN | R | B000647 | 1 | Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to exclude the amount of the assets of the student and the assets of the student's family from the determination of expected family contribution for the determination of need under the guaranteed student loan program, for any academic year beginning after academic year 1983-1984. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2847 |
| 98-s-2800 | 98 | s | 2800 | Emergency Immigrant Education Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-06-27 | 1984-06-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Bentsen, Lloyd M. [D-TX] | TX | D | B000401 | 0 | Emergency Immigrant Education Act of 1984 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for special impact aid payments to State and local educational agencies which provide educational services to immigrant children. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to pay to each State educational agency (SEA) for its administrative costs under this Act up to one and one-half percent of the funds to which the SEA is entitled under this Act. Sets forth provisions for withholding of payments under this Act. Directs the Secretary to make, for FY 1985 through 1989, State entitlement payments equal to $500 for each immigrant child in public and nonpublic elementary or secondary schools within eligible local educational agencies (LEAs). Requires that the number of such children in the public and nonpublic schools within an eligible LEA be at least the lesser of: (1) 500; or (2) three percent of the total enrollment in such public or nonpublic schools during the fiscal year. Requires that the amount of any such grant to an SEA for any fiscal year be reduced by the amounts made available for such fiscal year by any other Federal law for expenditure within the State for the same purposes as those for which funds are available under this Act. Provides that such reduction shall be made only to the extent that such amounts are made available: (1) for such purposes specifically because of the refugee, parolee, asylee, or other immigrant status of the individuals served by such funds; and (2) to provide assistance to individuals eligible for services under this Act. Permits payments to States under this Act to be used for supplementary public educational services and costs for immigrant children in public and nonpublic schools within districts served by eligible LEAs. Includes among such services: (1) English language instruction; (2) other bilingual educational services; (3) special materials and supplies; (4) additional basic instructional services; and (5) inservice personnel training. Sets forth requirements for SE… | 2025-08-29T17:38:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2800 |
| 98-s-2768 | 98 | s | 2768 | United States Scholarship Program for Developing Countries Act | Education | 1984-06-14 | 1984-09-11 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1163. | Senate | Sen. Mathias, Charles McC., Jr. [R-MD] | MD | R | M000241 | 19 | United States Scholarship Program for Developing Countries Act - Directs the President, acting through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Information Agency, to provide an undergraduate scholarship program for citizens and nationals of developing countries to study at American institutions of higher education. Requires that half of each payment to a student shall be in the form of a loan with repayment to be forgiven upon the student's prompt return to his or her country of origin for a period of no less than the years spent studying in the United States plus one. Sets forth guidelines for implementing the program. Directs the President, before allocating any funds, to consult with U.S. educational institutions, educational exchange organizations, U.S. missions, and the governments of participating countries on how to implement the guidelines. Authorizes the President to enter into agreements with foreign governments to further the scholarship program. Urges the Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance programs, in implementing such programs, to increase assistance for undergraduate scholarships for students of limited financial means from developing countries to study in the United States. Urges the President to take steps to expand the opportunities for Americans from all economic classes to study in developing countries. Authorizes the President to establish counseling and orientation services: (1) abroad to prepare foreign students for study in the United States; and (2) at U.S. schools to help them while they are in the United States. Directs the Board of Foreign Scholarships to advise and assist the President in the discharge of programs authorized by this Act. Requires the public and private sectors in the United States to be encouraged to contribute to the costs of the programs financed under this Act. Directs the President to engage the public and private sectors of developing countries in programs to maximize the use of prog… | 2025-08-29T17:39:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2768 |
| 98-s-2681 | 98 | s | 2681 | A bill to amend the Act commonly known as the Second Morrill Act to repeal statutory language purporting to permit racial segregation in colleges financed under such Act, and for other purposes. | Education | 1984-05-17 | 1984-05-17 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Glenn, John H., Jr. [D-OH] | OH | D | G000236 | 0 | Amends the Act commonly known as the Second Morrill Act to repeal language relating to racial segregation in colleges. Provides that amendments made by this Act shall not be construed as affecting the eligibility of any land-grant college or institution, including Tuskegee Institute, to receive funds under the Act commonly known as the First Morrill Act or under the Second Morrill Act. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2681 |
| 98-s-2627 | 98 | s | 2627 | Border States Natural Resources Research Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-05-03 | 1984-05-11 | Referred to Subcommittee on Education. | Senate | Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] | NM | R | D000407 | 0 | Border States Natural Resources Research Act of 1984 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to one or more institutions of higher education to establish and support border natural resources research in each border State (Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) in the United States-Mexico border region. Requires that, in order to receive such assistance, an institution of higher education must be located in a border State and have a competent and qualified natural resources institute (or center or other equivalent division). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987. Directs the Secretary to distribute such appropriations for each fiscal year equally among the border States. Requires that such grants be used to initiate and support natural resources research programs and provide for the training of specialists of border State natural resources problems. Sets forth various types of activities which such research may include. Sets forth grant application requirements. Sets forth provisions for cooperative research. Sets forth provisions relating to payments and administration under this Act. | 2025-08-29T17:40:05Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2627 |
| 98-s-2617 | 98 | s | 2617 | Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-05-01 | 1984-05-01 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. | Senate | Sen. Dole, Robert J. [R-KS] | KS | R | D000401 | 7 | Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1984 - Title I: Special Supplemental Food Program - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require that when special supplemental food benefits are issued for part of a month, the monthly food package must be reduced accordingly. Declares that a pregnant woman shall be considered two individuals for purposes of income eligibility standards. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to report biennially to Congress on the income and nutritional risk characteristics of program participants. Revises the requirements for State plans of operation and administration. Requires State agencies to establish procedures to obtain public comment on the development of the State plans. (Currently, public hearings are required.) Extends the time after application to the program that State agencies must notify persons of their eligibility from 20 days to 30 days. Eliminates the requirement for State agencies to publicize at least once annually the availability of program benefits. Provides for coordination of the child care food programs under this Act and the National School Lunch Act. Requires State agencies to seek repayment in cash from families who have received benefits as a result of fraud or intentional misrepresentation. Increases authorized appropriations for FY 1984 and authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1988 for the special supplemental food program. Authorizes the Secretary to use specified funds to provide technical assistance to improve State agency administrative systems. Directs the Secretary to keep to a minimum required State paperwork with respect to nutrition education funds. Limits to two percent of a State's allocation the amount of supplemental food funds that may be expended for expenses incurred in the prior fiscal year for such foods. Eliminates the annual report to Congress on migrant participation in the special supplemental food program. Title II: Other Child Nutrition Programs - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend fr… | 2025-08-29T17:40:36Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2617 |
| 98-s-2602 | 98 | s | 2602 | A bill to simplify the program of grants to the States for vocational education and for other purposes. | Education | 1984-04-26 | 1984-04-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Pressler, Larry [R-SD] | SD | R | P000513 | 0 | Amends the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (the Act) to revise and extend programs under the Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act for FY 1985 through 1989. Lowers the maximum amount which is to be transferred from funds reserved under the Act to the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee in any fiscal year. Eliminates a requirement that the amount of any State's allotment from appropriations provided under the Act for any fiscal year not be less than the total amount of payments made to the State under allotments determined for a specified fiscal year. Eliminates a requirement that specified portions of the State allotment be used for programs of national significance (80 percent) and programs of bilingual vocational training (20 percent). Eliminates requirements that State boards for vocational education certify: (1) any delegation of its responsibilities; and (2) that the appropriate agencies, councils, and individuals have been afforded the opportunity to be involved in the formulation of specified plans and reports. Eliminates a requirement that each State reserve specified funds for assignment of personnel to assist the State board. Eliminates a prohibition against State advisory council members representing more than one of specified categories. Eliminates a requirement that a State certify the establishment and membership of its State advisory council. Eliminates requirements relating to the State advisory council's meetings, Chairman, and rules for operating procedures and staffing. Eliminates a requirement that each State advisory council evaluate vocational education programs, services, and activities assisted under the Act and publish and distribute the results of such evaluation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for grants to State advisory councils to carry out their functions under the Act. Eliminates requirements that general applications for assistance under such Act include assurances that: (1) annual applications by eligible recipients will i… | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2602 |
| 98-s-2565 | 98 | s | 2565 | Human Services Reauthorization Act | Education | 1984-04-12 | 1984-10-30 | Became Public Law No: 98-558. | Senate | Sen. Denton, Jeremiah [R-AL] | AL | R | D000259 | 7 | (Measure passed Senate, amended) Human Services Reauthorization Act - Title I: Head Start - Amends the Head Start Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for programs under such Act through FY 1986. Makes a technical amendment referring to "the Commonwealth of" the Northern Mariana Islands. Requires the Secretary of Education (the Secretary, for purposes of this title) to reserve for training and technical assistance for each fiscal year funds which are not less than the amount spent for such activities under such Act in FY 1982. Provides that such minimum reservation shall not apply in any fiscal year in which the appropriation for the Head Start program is less than the amount appropriated for FY 1984. Prohibits such reserved funds from being combined with funds appropriated under any other Act if the purpose of combining funds is to make a single discretionay grant or payment, unless funds appropriated under the Head Start Act are separately identified in such grant or payment and are used for the purposes of such Act. Revises provisions for designation of Head Start agencies. Requires that the designated agency be in the community which it serves. Requires the Secretary to give priority in the designation of such agencies to any local public or private nonprofit agency (or its successor agency) receiving funds under any Head Start program on a specified date, unless the Secretary makes a finding that the agency involved fails to meet program and fiscal requirements established by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to designate a Head Start agency from among qualified applicants in a community if there is no Head Start agency or program serving such community. Provides that any such designation shall be governed by the program and fiscal requirements, criteria, and standards applicable on September 1, 1983, to then existing Head Start agencies. Prohibits the Secretary from making any change in the method, as in effect on April 25, 1984, of calculating income used to prescribe eligibility fo… | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2565 |
| 98-s-2561 | 98 | s | 2561 | Training Technology Transfer Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-04-11 | 1984-06-28 | Subcommittee on Education. Hearings held. | Senate | Sen. Pell, Claiborne [D-RI] | RI | D | P000193 | 0 | Training Technology Transfer Act of 1984 - Establishes an Office of Training Technology Transfer in the Department of Education. Provides that the Director of the Office shall be appointed by the Secretary of Education. Sets forth provisions relating to staffing and staff compensation. Requires the Director to compile and maintain a current and comprehensive inventory of all training technology developed by or under the supervision of Federal agencies, especially that developed by or under the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics of the Department of Defense. Requires that such inventory include specified contents with respect to each item of training technology listed. Requires the Director, in compiling such inventory, to: (1) consult with and fully utilize the resources of all Federal agencies engaged in the collection and dissemination of information concerning training technology; and (2) request the participation and cooperation of entities in the legislative and judicial branches. Requires the Director to disseminate the inventory and its revisions widely and on a regular basis to give all potential users of training technology ample notice of its development by Federal agencies. Requires the Director, in doing so, to use all interagency and intergovernmental communications mechanisms and to encourage the participation of independent private sector organizations. Requires the Director to develop and distribute detailed instructions and procedures for securing copies, and rights thereto, of training technology listed in such inventory and instructions for participating in a conversion assistance program established under this Act. Requires the Director to advise and consult with any entity which is a prospective user of training technology listed in the inventory and assist such entity in securing the transfer and conversion of such technology from the Federal agency which developed it. Requires the Director, if such agency has not established procedures f… | 2025-08-29T17:39:36Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2561 |
| 98-s-2532 | 98 | s | 2532 | Computer Education Assistance Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-04-04 | 1984-04-17 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB, GAO. | Senate | Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] | NJ | D | L000123 | 6 | Computer Education Assistance Act of 1984 - Title I: Acquisition of Computer Resources - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to States to pay the Federal share of the costs of strengthening computer education in the elementary and secondary schools. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1985 through 1991. Sets forth provisions for allotments to States and for allocation of allotments within States. Provides that two percent of the appropriations for this Act be reserved for specified territories and possessions of the United States. Provides for allotment to States on the basis of school-age population and on the basis of a formula for distribution of aid for disadvantaged school children under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Directs the State educational agency (SEA) to allocate the State allotment to local educational agencies (LEAs) on the basis of similar factors. Allows grants under this Act to be used to pay the Federal share of: (1) planning activities; (2) acquisition of computers and other equipment for computer education; (3) teacher training programs; and (4) computer software acquisition. Sets forth requirements for State applications for grants under this Act. Sets forth requirements for local applications for payments under this Act. Makes specified provisions of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 relating to participation of children enrolled in private schools applicable to the financial assistance made available under this Act. Directs the Secretary to pay each State, from the amount allotted, the Federal share (75 percent) of the cost of the program assisted under this Act. Permits non-Federal contributions to be in cash or in kind, including plant, equipment, and services. Title II: Teacher Training Institutes - Directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make grants to and contracts with specified entities to develop and operate short-term or regular session study institutes to improve the qualifications of in… | 2025-08-29T17:38:16Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2532 |
| 98-s-2510 | 98 | s | 2510 | Howard University Endowment Act | Education | 1984-03-30 | 1984-04-09 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB, GAO. | Senate | Sen. Quayle, Dan [R-IN] | IN | R | Q000007 | 3 | Howard University Endowment Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to establish an endowment program for Howard University. Authorizes the Secretary, from funds available in any fiscal year for the University, to make grants into the endowment fund established under this Act at the University. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with the University, including provisions necessary to assure that the purposes of this Act will be achieved. Requires the University, in order to receive such a grant, to: (1) deposit in the endowment fund an amount equal to such grant; and (2) administer the endowment fund in accordance with the requirements of this Act. Prohibits the source of funds for such institutional match from including Federal funds or funds derived from an existing endowment fund. Limits the period of any such grant to 20 years. Prohibits the University from withdrawing or expending any of its endowment fund corpus during such grant period. Allows the University, upon expiration of such period, to use the endowment fund corpus plus any endowment fund income for any educational purpose. Sets forth requirements for investments of the endowment fund corpus and endowment fund income. Sets forth provisions relating to authorized withdrawals and expenditures of endowment fund income. Sets forth provisions for enforcement of requirements under this Act. Makes conforming amendments to specified Federal law relating to Howard University. | 2025-08-29T17:38:43Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2510 |
| 98-s-2512 | 98 | s | 2512 | Leadership in Educational Administration Development Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-03-30 | 1984-10-09 | Similar Provisions Included under Title IX of S.2565. | Senate | Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI] | RI | R | C000269 | 5 | Leadership in Educational Administration Development Act of 1984 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1990 to carry out this Act. Directs the Secretary of Education, from such appropriations, to make available amounts, up to a specified maximum per region, necessary to establish and operate a regional technical assistance center in each Federal region. Makes up to $10,000,000 of such appropriations available for metropolitan training centers. Directs the Secretary to enter into a contract with an institution of higher education (or consortium of such institutions) in each Federal region to establish and operate a regional technical assistance center. Permits the contractor to associate with a private management agency for performance of such contract. Requires the contractor to: (1) make center services available to school administrators from any of the local educational agencies (LEAs) in the region; (2) collect information on school leadership skills; (3) assess leadership skills of individual participants; (4) conduct leadership skills training for new and practicing school administrators, especially women and minority administrators; (5) operate consulting programs for school districts; (6) maintain training curricula and materials on leadership skills drawing on expertise in business, academia, civilian and military governmental agencies, and existing effective schools; (7) conduct programs which make available business executives, scholars, and practicing school administrators and which offer internships in business, industry, and in effective school districts to school administrators; (8) disseminate information on leadership skills associated with effective schools; and (9) establish model administrator projects. Directs the Secretary in selecting such contractors to take into account whether their programs would: (1) emphasize development of leadership skills identified by graduate schools of management and of education; and (2) assure provision of assistance to school administrators fr… | 2025-08-29T17:38:36Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2512 |
| 98-s-2491 | 98 | s | 2491 | Student Loan Consolidation Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-03-29 | 1984-06-13 | By Senator Hatch from Committee on Labor and Human Resources filed written report. Report No. 98-513. | Senate | Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT] | VT | R | S000776 | 6 | (Reported to Senate from the Committee on Labor and Human Resources with amendment (without written report)) Student Loan Consolidation Act of 1984 - Amends part B (Federal, State, and Private Programs of Low-Interest Insured Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education) of title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to add new provisions for student loan consolidation. Directs the Secretary of Education (or a State or nonprofit private institution or organization with which the Secretary has an agreement under provisions for Federal payments to reduce interest costs) to enter into agreements with the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) and specified eligible commercial lenders and State agencies to provide consolidation loans to eligible borrowers. Provides for such consolidation of student loans made, insured, or guaranteed under part B or under part E (Direct Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education). Requires that such consolidation loans be covered by a properly issued certificate of insurance. Provides that loans covered by a certificate of insurance issued by a State or nonprofit private institution or organization shall be considered to be insured loans for purposes of Federal reimbursements, but that no administrative cost allowance will be paid with respect to such loans. Defines eligible borrowers, for consolidation loan purposes, as those who: (1) owe at least $5,000 to one or more lenders or programs under title IV; (2) have not carried at least one-half the normal full-time academic work-load at an eligible institution during the previous four months; (3) if in repayment status are not delinquent with respect to any required payment on such indebtedness by more than 90 days; (4) are not parent borrowers under the Auxiliary Loan program; and (5) certify, subject to specified penalties, that they are not currently receiving compensation for employment for which the total annualized monthly rate of pay of the borrower is in excess of 200 p… | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2491 |
| 98-s-2494 | 98 | s | 2494 | Impact Aid Amendments of 1984 | Education | 1984-03-29 | 1984-03-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT] | VT | R | S000776 | 0 | Impact Aid Amendments of 1984 - Amends Federal law relating to the impact aid program of Federal assistance for local educational agencies (LEAs) in areas affected by Federal activity. Eliminates the authority of the Secretary of Education to make payments to LEAs on behalf of so-called "b" children in attendance at LEA schools who: (1) resided on Federal property; (2) resided with a parent employed on Federal property situated in the same county, school district, or State as the LEA; or (3) had a parent on active duty in the uniformed services. (Maintains the authority to make such payments on behalf of so-called "a" children in attendance at LEA schools who reside on Federal property and who: (1) do so with a parent employed on Federal property situated in the same county, school district, or State as the the LEA; or (2) have a parent on active duty in the uniformed services.) Makes conforming amendments. Sets the entitlement of any LEA with respect to children who reside on low-rent federally subsidized housing property at 50 percent of the amount determined by the current formula under such impact aid program. Revises the formula for estimating the amount of preliminary payments under the impact aid program. Revises the formula for determining adjustments in impact aid payments where necessitated by the amount of appropriations. Eliminates provisions relating to certain discretionary allocations under the impact aid program. Revises certain restrictions on eligibility for disaster assistance under the impact aid program. Permits such disaster assistance payments to LEAs suffering damages from disasters occurring after September 30, 1983. Raises the threshold of eligibility for such disaster assistance from $1,000 or one-half of one percent of the LEA's current operating expenditures during the previous fiscal year to $10,000 or five percent of such expenditures, whichever is less. Amends the Education Amendments of 1974 to eliminate specified hold-harmless provisions which provide time for LEAs to adjust … | 2025-08-29T17:41:00Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2494 |
| 98-s-2496 | 98 | s | 2496 | Education Amendments of 1984 | Education | 1984-03-29 | 1984-10-19 | Became Public Law No: 98-511. | Senate | Sen. Quayle, Dan [R-IN] | IN | R | Q000007 | 4 | (Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 98-1128) Education Amendments of 1984 - Title I: Adult Education Act Amendments - Amends the Adult Education Act (the Act) to revise the statement of purpose. Redefines "adult" to mean an individual who has attained 16 years of age or who is beyond the age of compulsory school attendance under State law (except that for purposes of State allotments "adult" means an individual 16 years of age or older). Redefines "adult education" to mean instruction or services below the college level for adults who do not have: (1) the basic skills to enable them to function effectively in society; or (2) a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education (and who have not achieved an equivalent level of education). Revises other definitions. Revises provisions for grants to States to permit private for-profit organizations to participate in grant programs if such organizations can: (1) make a significant contribution to attaining the objectives of the Act; and (2) provide substantially equivalent education at a lesser cost or provide services and equipment not available in public institutions. Revises provisions relating to allotment of such grant funds among States and specified U.S. territories and possessions. Increases the amount of such yearly allotments. Provides that no allotment shall be less than the allotment for FY 1984. Revises provisions for State plans. Requires the State to provide information about the State's adult education students, programs, expenditures, and goals, together with information with respect to the age, sex, and race of students in programs assisted under the Act and whether the students complete such programs. Revises provisions for payments to States. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to waive, for one fiscal year only, specified requirements relating to the amount of payments from non-Federal sources, upon determination that such a waiver would be equitable due to exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances such as a na… | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2496 |
| 98-s-2443 | 98 | s | 2443 | A bill to provide that a student enrolled in a graduate program in psychology shall be eligible for student loans under the health professions student loan program. | Education | 1984-03-19 | 1984-03-19 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | I000025 | 0 | Amends the Public Health Service Act to make students enrolled in graduate programs in psychology eligible for student loans under the health professions student loan program. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2443 |
| 98-s-2444 | 98 | s | 2444 | A bill to permit educational institutions with graduate programs in psychology to apply for grants and contracts to provide educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. | Education | 1984-03-19 | 1984-03-19 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | I000025 | 1 | Amends the Public Health Service Act to permit educational institutions with graduate programs in psychology to apply for grants and contracts to provide educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2444 |
| 98-s-2422 | 98 | s | 2422 | Secondary School Basic Skills Act | Education | 1984-03-13 | 1984-03-13 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Bradley, Bill [D-NJ] | NJ | D | B001225 | 7 | Secondary School Basic Skills Act - Establishes a program of grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) having especially high concentrations of children from low-income families to enable such agencies to provide more effective instruction in basic skills for economically disadvantaged secondary school students. Defines "basic skills" to include reading, writing, and mathematics computational proficiency as well as comprehension and reasoning. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1990. Makes certain amounts of such appropriations available for specified activities and types of grants under this Act. Makes a secondary school eligible to receive assistance under this Act for planning grants, demonstration grants, and formula grants only if 20 percent or more of children aged 14 to 17, inclusive, who are enrolled in such school are counted under LEA basic grant provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as modified by the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA). Requires that funds made available under this Act for planning grants, demonstration grants, and formula grants be used to plan for, develop new approaches to, and carry out educational services and activities designed specifically to raise the basic skills of low achieving disadvantaged children. Authorizes the Secretary of Education, through the National Institute of Education (NIE) and from specified funds appropriated for FY 1985, to make planning grants to LEAs, institutions of higher education, and other public agencies and nonprofit private organizations. Provides that such planning grants shall be made to such entities on behalf of and for the purpose of assisting eligible secondary schools to prepare proposals for demonstration grants. Sets forth application requirements. Limits any such planning grant to $2,000. Requires planning grant recipients to submit a demonstration proposal within 60 days after the end of FY 1986, or else refund the amount received. Authorizes the Secretary, thr… | 2025-08-29T17:41:56Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2422 |
| 98-s-2412 | 98 | s | 2412 | Education Amendments of 1984 | Education | 1984-03-12 | 1984-03-12 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK] | AK | R | S000888 | 0 | Education Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to include educational institutions receiving Federal financial assistance within the prohibition against sex discrimination. | 2025-08-29T17:38:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2412 |
| 98-s-2367 | 98 | s | 2367 | Youth Education and Training for Employment Act | Education | 1984-02-29 | 1984-02-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Metzenbaum, Howard M. [D-OH] | OH | D | M000678 | 0 | Youth Education and Training for Employment Act - Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year to carry out the following provisions of this Act: (1) title I, assistance to improve basic competency of educationally disadvantaged secondary school students; (2) title II, dropout prevention and remediation programs; (3) title III, community improvement work for disadvantaged students; and (4) title IV, skill training for young adults. Sets forth administrative provisions relating to titles II, III, and IV. Provides that specified provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) relating to job training administrative entities shall apply to this Act. Title I: Assistance to Improve Basic Competency of Educationally Disadvantaged Secondary Students - Authorizes the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary," for purposes of title I) to make grants to States for improvement of the basic skills competency of educationally disadvantaged secondary school students. Sets forth provisions for allocations to States. Reserves specified amounts for payments to certain U.S. territories and possessions and for payments for children enrolled in Indian schools. Bases State allotments on the population of children aged 12 through 17 who are: (1) from families below the poverty level as determined under specified provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA); (2) from families above the poverty level as determined by specified provisions of ESEA; and (3) living in institutions for neglected or delinquent children or being supported in foster homes with public funds as determined under specified provisions of ESEA. Sets forth a minimum State allotment requirement. Sets forth provisions for within State allocation. Directs the State educational agency (SEA) to allocate 95 percent of the State allotment to local educational agencies (LEAs) based on the population of such children in the public schools of each LEA. Permits funds under this Act to be used by LEAs for educational services and activities … | 2025-08-29T17:40:05Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2367 |
| 98-s-2378 | 98 | s | 2378 | Impact Aid Authorization Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-02-29 | 1984-02-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Abdnor, James [R-SD] | SD | R | A000009 | 39 | Impact Aid Authorization Act of 1984 - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to authorize appropriations through FY 1989 for the impact aid program for federally affected schools. Increases the authority for reimbursements to eligible local educational agencies for revenues lost from federally owned, nontaxable property. Requires the Secretary of Education, not later than November 15, of each year, to publish the percentage change in the price index published for October of the preceding fiscal year and October of the fiscal year in which such publication is made. Bases the amount authorized for such impact aid programs on such percentage change. Limits such percentage change to no more than five percent. Repeals the three-year phaseout of impact aid to federally affected schools whose students' parents either live or work on Federal property. Authorizes appropriations for such impact aid through FY 1989. | 2025-08-29T17:40:34Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2378 |
| 98-s-2360 | 98 | s | 2360 | Vocational-Technical Education Quality and Equity Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-02-28 | 1984-02-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Chiles, Lawton [D-FL] | FL | D | C000356 | 3 | Vocational-Technical Education Quality and Equity Act of 1984 - Sets forth national priorities which States are to be assisted in addressing under this Act. Lists national priorities under the following two headings: (1) improving the quality of vocational education to meet the needs of a changing economy and labor market; and (2) increasing equity in vocational education by expanding access to programs and providing services to students with specified educational needs. Title I: State Administration, Planning, and Evaluation - Part A: State Administrative Responsibilities - Sets forth requirements relating to the functions of State boards of vocational education. Includes among State board responsibilities: (1) appointment of a State director of vocational education and other personnel to administer this Act; (2) convening and meeting at least four times annually; and (3) submitting the State plan to the State advisory council on vocational-technical education. Requires the State board to assign at least one full-time individual to assist it in specified ways. Directs each State to reserve a specified amount from its basic State grant for State board functions. Sets forth requirements relating to State advisory councils on vocational-technical education. Limits membership of each council to 15, at least one-third of whom must be representatives of the private sector. Sets forth other membership representation requirements. Sets forth council functions and duties, including: (1) biennial evaluation of vocational education program delivery systems assisted under this Act and under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and of the adequacy and effectiveness of Federal, State, local, and private efforts to strengthen and improve vocational education in the State; and (2) reviewing and commenting on the State plan submitted by the State board. Directs the Secretary of Education, from sums appropriated for such State councils and allotted in a specified manner, to make grants to State councils to carry out t… | 2025-08-29T17:40:32Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2360 |
| 98-s-2363 | 98 | s | 2363 | A bill entitled the "Sex Discrimination in Education Reform Act of 1984". | Education | 1984-02-28 | 1984-02-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Packwood, Bob [R-OR] | OR | R | P000009 | 19 | Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to include educational institutions receiving Federal financial assistance within the prohibition against sex discrimination. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2363 |
| 98-s-2348 | 98 | s | 2348 | Vocational Education Act | Education | 1984-02-27 | 1984-02-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Quayle, Dan [R-IN] | IN | R | Q000007 | 0 | Vocational Education Act - Declares that it is the policy of the United States to assist the States to: (1) improve the quality of vocational education programs, and make them more responsive to labor market needs; (2) improve access to, and the quality of, vocational education for groups of individuals with special problems in the labor market, such as the handicapped and the economically disadvantaged, and to promote sex equity in occupational training; (3) assist in dealing with economic dislocation through programs for retraining adult workers and by promoting training for occupations required by expanding industries; and (4) achieve these purposes by involving the business community in the planning process and developing performance standards. Title I: State Vocational Education Program - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations and Allotments - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1990 to carry out this Act. Provides that, beginning with FY 1986 and thereafter, appropriations for programs and activities under this Act shall be available for obligation only on the basis of a program year which shall begin on July 1 in the fiscal year for which the appropriation is made. Provides that funds obligated for any program year may be expended by each recipient and subrecipient during that program year and the two succeeding program years and no amount shall be deobligated on account of a rate of expenditure which is consistent with the program plan. Provides that appropriations for FY 1985 shall be available both to fund activities for the period between October 1, 1984, and June 30, 1985, and for the program year beginning July 1, 1985. Authorizes appropriation of any additional sums necessary to carry out the transition to program year funding. Distributes funds under this Act as follows: (1) one percent for Indian programs under Part D of title II; (2) not more than three percent for national activities under parts B and C of title II; and (3) the remainder for allotments to States. Directs the Sec… | 2025-08-29T17:37:58Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2348 |
| 98-s-2341 | 98 | s | 2341 | Vocational Education Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-02-23 | 1984-08-09 | Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. | Senate | Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT] | VT | R | S000776 | 7 | (Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H.R. 4164 passed in lieu) Carl Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 to carry out the provisions of titles I, II (other than consumer and homemaking education programs), III, and IV (other than bilingual vocational training provisions) of this Act, relating to State programs. Makes two percent of such appropriations for each fiscal year available to carry out the provisions of title IV (other than bilingual vocational training provisions) relating to national programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 to assist States to carry out programs and services designed to enroll severely economically and educationally disadvantaged youth in vocational education programs or other education and training or for employment, using joint efforts between eligible recipients and community-based organizations (under part C of title I of this Act). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for title II provisions for consumer and homemaking education programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for title IV part E bilingual vocational training programs. Title I: Vocational Education Assistance to the States Part A: Allotment and Allocation - Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to reserve from sums appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under this Act: (1) two percent for the activities described in title IV (National Programs); and (2) two percent for the purpose of carrying out provisions for Indian and Hawaiian native programs. Directs the Secretary, from the remainder of such sums and subject to specified provisions, to allot to each State for each fiscal year an amount based on formulas using State allotment ratios and relative State populations of certain age groups. Allots the following percentages of such funds on the basis of population aged: (1) 15 through 19, 50 percent; (2) 20 through 24, 20 percent; and (3) 25 through 65, 15 percent. All… | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2341 |
| 98-s-2289 | 98 | s | 2289 | Vocational Education and Community-Based Organizations Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-02-09 | 1984-02-09 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] | PA | R | S000709 | 0 | Vocational Education and Community-Based Organizations Act of 1984 - Amends the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (VEA) to add as a purpose of State vocational education programs under VEA to reduce the structural unemployment of the hard-to-employ, by funding State and local proposals which: (1) develop new self-help, community-based preparation programs that provide prevocational, motivational, attitudinal, and basic skills training necessary for existing vocational and technical training schools; (2) assist in providing adequate prevocational preparation targeted to the inner-city youth, the non-English-speaking barrios, the Appalachian hollows, and other urban and rural pockets of poverty; and (3) provide for cooperation between self-help community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness and existing vocational and technical training institutions. Includes self-help community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness among those groups to be represented in: (1) the membership of State and local advisory councils on vocational education; (2) participating in the formulation of State five-year plans for vocational education; and (3) the membership of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education. Requires States, in considering the approval of applications for vocation education funds under VEA, to give priority (along with other priority factors) to those applicants that make proposals which contribute to the purpose added by this Act and which provide for career intern programs of demonstrated effectiveness, utilize intermediary organizations with a record of demonstrated effectiveness in developing cooperative partnerships with business and industry and vocational education institutions, or improve the basic skills of prevocational students. Allows any eligible recipient of funds under VEA that is a self-help community- based organization to appeal to the Secretary of Education any final action of the State with respect to any application for funds under VEA. Requires expenditures … | 2025-08-29T17:39:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2289 |
| 98-s-2302 | 98 | s | 2302 | Vocational Education Consolidation Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-02-09 | 1984-02-09 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 0 | Vocational Education Consolidation Act of 1984 - Part A: General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act in a specified amount for FY 1985 and in such sums as may be necessary for FY 1986 through 1989. Provides that funds appropriated under specified provisions of the Smith-Hughes Act (also known as the Vocational Education Act of 1917) shall be considered as funds appropriated for this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to reserve up to five percent of such appropriations for national programs under part C of this Act. Directs the Secretary to allot the remainder of such appropriations to States and insular areas according to a formula based on: (1) relative numbers of unemployed persons aged 15 through 19, 20 through 44, and 45 through 64; and (2) relative per capita income. Provides for minimum allotments and for reallotment under specified circumstances. Requires States to submit annual proposed use reports to the Secretary, after making such reports available for public comment, in order to receive funds under part B of this Act. Requires States to provide for financial and compliance audits of programs supported by funds received under this Act. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to Congress on the status of vocational education in the Nation. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Vocational Education for the period for which funds are appropriated under this Act. Provides for the applicability of specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act to programs under this Act. Part B: State Programs - Directs the Secretary to make grants to each State, in accordance with its allotment under part A, to establish, expand, and improve vocational education programs, projects, services, and activities. Authorizes each State to set aside that portion of such allotment as is required for the State's administration of the programs, projects, services, and activities described in its proposed use report. Requires each State to use, from the remainder of its… | 2025-08-29T17:37:40Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2302 |
| 98-s-2310 | 98 | s | 2310 | Senior Citizen Tutorial Volunteer Network Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-02-09 | 1984-02-09 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI] | MI | D | L000261 | 5 | Senior Citizen Tutorial Volunteer Network Act of 1984 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), or to public agencies and private nonprofit organizations applying jointly with one or more LEAs, to establish and operate senior citizen tutorial volunteer network programs for educationally disadvantaged children. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 to carry out this Act. Provides that 85 percent of such appropriations be used for such grants for such programs. Provides that such volunteers will tutor such children in their elementary and secondary schools and homes and will serve as liaisons between their schools and families. Provides that such funds may also be used to: (1) train volunteers, teachers, and other school personnel involved in such programs; (2) develop curricula materials; and (3) assist volunteers to pay for program-related expenses. Provides that 15 percent of such appropriations shall be used by the Secretary for: (1) a leadership training institute for project directors and other designated project personnel; and (2) ongoing technical assistance for projects. Requires that eligible applicants submit grant applications which describe the program, including plans for program continuation at the local level. Requires that such applications provide assurances that: (1) local senior citizen groups are involved in program design and operation; and (2) only elementary and secondary schools and families eligible for assistance under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 may receive assistance under this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) assure equitable distribution of assistance among the States; and (2) pay a Federal share for each fiscal year equal to 100 percent of the costs of the programs described in approved applications. | 2025-08-29T17:40:48Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2310 |
| 98-s-2273 | 98 | s | 2273 | Student Aid Volunteer Earnings Act | Education | 1984-02-08 | 1984-02-08 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Glenn, John H., Jr. [D-OH] | OH | D | G000236 | 0 | Student Aid Volunteer Earnings Act - Establishes a student aid volunteer earnings program. Requires that participants in the program: (1) be between 16 and 25 years old; (2) either have a high school diploma (or its equivalent) or be at least 18 years old and pursuing a high school equivalency diploma during participation in the program; (3) enter an agreement to commit themselves to participate in the program; (4) be a citizen or lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence; and (5) if below 18 years old, have the written consent of their parents or legal guardians. Requires that the volunteers participate in community service projects including specified service and work activities which would not otherwise be carried out. Provides for a period of service of between six to 24 months, to be served in six-month increments. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services ("the Secretary") after consultation with participating States and local sponsoring agencies, to design, prepare, and make available to participating States certificates of volunteer service to be presented to volunteers who successfully complete the applicable period of service. Provides for stipends (equal to at least the minimum wage for no more than 32 hours of community service per workweek) and for health insurance and workmen's compensation benefits for volunteers. Requires that each participant in the program agree to: (1) work 32 hours per week in a community service project carried out by the local sponsoring agency; (2) spend eight hours per workweek in remedial or continuing education; (3) contribute 25 percent of the stipend paid to the volunteer to the educational trust fund; (4) serve at least six months, and for six-month intervals, but for no more than 24 months, in order to be entitled to receive the postservice educational benefits of Federal matching funds under the educational trust fund; and (5) furnish information necessary for verification of eligibility and for participation in the program. Requires … | 2025-08-29T17:39:35Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2273 |
| 98-s-2275 | 98 | s | 2275 | Leadership in Educational Administration Development Act of 1984 | Education | 1984-02-08 | 1984-10-09 | Similar Provisions Included under Title IX of S.2565. | Senate | Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI] | RI | R | C000269 | 2 | Leadership in Educational Administration Development Act of 1984 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1990 to carry out this Act. Directs the Secretary of Education, from such appropriations, to make available amounts, up to a specified maximum per region, necessary to establish and operate a regional technical assistance center in each Federal region. Makes any remainder of such appropriations available for metropolitan training centers. Directs the Secretary to enter into a contract with an institution of higher education (or consortium of such institutions) in each Federal region to establish and operate a regional technical assistance center. Permits the contractor to associate with a private management agency for performance of such contract. Requires the contractor to: (1) make center services available to school administrators from any of the local educational agencies (LEAs) in the region; (2) collect information on school leadership skills; (3) assess leadership skills of individual participants; (4) conduct leadership skills training for new and practicing school administrators, especially women and minority administrators; (5) operate consulting programs for school districts; (6) maintain training curricula and materials on leadership skills drawing on expertise in business, academia, civilian and military governmental agencies, and existing effective schools; (7) conduct programs which make available business executives, scholars, and practicing school administrators and which offer internships in business, industry, and in effective school districts to school administrators; (8) disseminate information on leadership skills associated with effective schools; and (9) establish model administrator projects. Directs the Secretary in selecting such contractors to take into account whether their programs would: (1) emphasize development of leadership skills identified by graduate schools of management and of education; and (2) assure provision of assistance to school administrators from LE… | 2025-08-29T17:37:47Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2275 |
| 98-s-1975 | 98 | s | 1975 | Gifted and Talented Children's Education Act | Education | 1983-10-19 | 1983-10-19 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Bradley, Bill [D-NJ] | NJ | D | B001225 | 4 | Gifted and Talented Children's Education Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to add this Act as part A (Gifted and Talented Children) of title IX (Additional Programs) of ESEA. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for programs for gifted and talented children. Directs the Secretary of Education to reserve 25 percent of such appropriations or $5,000,000, whichever is less, for carrying out discretionary programs. Requires that the remainder of such appropriations be available for State programs. Sets forth provisions for State programs. Directs the Secretary to make grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) for the Federal share of the costs of planning, developing, operating, and improving programs to meet the educational needs of gifted and talented children at the preschool, elementary, and secondary levels. Permits such programs to include inservice training of personnel to teach such children. Directs the Secretary, in any fiscal year in which appropriations for such State programs are less than $15,000,000, to distribute such funds so that each SEA with an approved application receives at least $50,000. Provides for ratable reductions when appropriations are not sufficient to pay such required minimum amount to each SEA. Directs the Secretary, in any fiscal year in which such appropriations equal or exceed $15,000,000, to follow specified State allotment provisions. Requires SEA applications for such grants to contain specified assurances, including the assurance that appropriate consideration will be given to the particular educational needs of disadvantaged gifted and talented children. Prohibits a SEA from reserving more than ten percent of grant funds for program administration, technical assistance, coordination, and statewide planning. Requires a SEA to distribute, on a competitive basis, at least 90 percent of grant funds to local educational agencies (LEAs) which apply, with due regard for the quality of the proposed activities. Requires a SE… | 2025-08-29T17:41:31Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1975 |
| 98-s-1913 | 98 | s | 1913 | A bill to provide for improvements in the school lunch and certain other child nutrition programs. | Education | 1983-09-30 | 1984-05-16 | Committee on Agriculture. Ordered favorably reported an original bill (S. 2722) in lieu of this measure. | Senate | Sen. Huddleston, Walter (Dee) [D-KY] | KY | D | H000905 | 52 | Amends the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase Federal school meal (lunch and breakfast) reimbursement. Amends the National School Lunch Act to provide funds to the States for donated commodity storage and transportation. Eliminates the tie between eligibility for such program and for the food stamp program. Delays the requirement that local school authorities verify application information until the completion of an Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 pilot study. Excludes certain medical expenses from household income for program eligibility purposes. Lowers the student cost of reduced-price lunches. Increases the number of reimbursable meals and snacks under the child care food program. Amends such Acts to eliminate private school tuition eligibility limits. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to permit all kindergarten children in nonprofit schools to participate in the special milk program. Increases reimbursement amounts for breakfast nutrition improvement. Lowers the student cost of reduced-price breakfasts. Makes the existing nutrition education authorization permanent. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1913 |
| 98-s-1905 | 98 | s | 1905 | A bill to authorize funds for the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. | Education | 1983-09-28 | 1983-09-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] | MT | D | B000243 | 5 | Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation to assist in the development of the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1905 |
| 98-s-1869 | 98 | s | 1869 | Computer Literacy Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-09-21 | 1983-09-21 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 2 | Computer Literacy Act of 1983 - Title I: Acquisition of Computer Hardware - Directs the Secretary of Education to allocate funds to local educational agencies (LEAs) for the acquisition of computer hardware for use in school classrooms. Directs the Secretary to allocate a specified amount to each State educational agency (SEA) for monitoring and enforcement. Sets forth requirements for LEA applications for such funds, to be approved by SEAs. Sets forth State responsibilities under this title. Sets forth provisions for participation of children from private schools. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1993 to carry out this title. Title II: Teacher Training Institutes - Directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) to arrange for short-term or regular session institutes for advanced study to improve the qualifications of individuals who are engaged in, or preparing to engage in: (1) teaching the operation and use of new technologies; or (2) supervising or training such teachers. Directs the NSF to make grants or contracts for the development and operation of such institutes by nonprofit professional scientific or engineering organizations, science museums, regional science education centers, SEAs, and institutions of higher education (including community colleges). Requires that special consideration for such grants and contracts be given to institutes training teachers, or supervisors or trainers of teachers, serving or preparing to serve in elementary and secondary schools enrolling substantial numbers of culturally, economically, socially, and educationally handicapped youth, or in programs for children of limited English language proficiency. Provides for stipends for individuals who attend such institutes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1993 to carry out this title. Title III: Information Dissemination and Evaluation - Directs the National Institute of Education (NIE) and the NSF to provide advice and technical assistance to SEAs and LEAs on the expenditure of funds under title … | 2025-08-29T17:39:11Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1869 |
| 98-s-1872 | 98 | s | 1872 | Challenge Grant Amendments of 1983 | Education | 1983-09-21 | 1983-09-26 | Became Public Law No: 98-95. | Senate | Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT] | VT | R | S000776 | 1 | Challenge Grant Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish a program to provide matching endowment grants to institutions of higher education which are eligible for assistance under the challenge grant program (part C of title III of HEA). Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award such matching endowment grants from sums available under the challenge grant program. Limits the endowment grant period to not more than 20 years, during which time the institution may not withdraw or expend the endowment fund corpus (the amount of the grant plus the matching amount deposited by the institution). Permits the institution, after grant period termination, to use the endowment fund corpus plus any endowment fund income for any educational purpose. Provides that institutions may receive more than one such grant, but may only receive such a grant for two fiscal years out of any period of five consecutive fiscal years. Limits the amount of an endowment grant to an institution to: (1) not less than $50,000 for any fiscal year; and (2) not more than $250,000 for FY 1984 or $500,000 for FY 1985 or any succeeding fiscal year. Permits an eligible institution to designate a foundation, which was established to raise money for the institution, as the recipient of the endowment grant. Sets forth requirements which the foundation and the institution must meet for such an award. Sets forth requirements for investment of the endowment fund corpus and income. Permits an institution to withdraw and expend the endowment fund income to defray any expenses necessary to the operation of the college. Prohibits an institution from spending more than 50 percent of the total aggregate endowment fund income earned prior to the time of expenditure. Authorizes the Secretary to permit an institution to spend more than the 50-percent limit under specified emergency circumstances. Provides for repayment by an institution of funds withdrawn prematurely from the endowment fund corpus or improperly expended fro… | 2025-08-29T17:41:51Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1872 |
| 98-s-1849 | 98 | s | 1849 | Computer Education Assistance Act | Education | 1983-09-15 | 1983-09-15 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] | NJ | D | L000123 | 0 | Computer Education Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to States to pay the Federal share of the costs of strengthening computer education in the elementary and secondary schools. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1985 through 1988. Sets forth provisions for allotments to States and for allocation of allotments within States. Provides that two percent of the appropriations for this Act be reserved for specified territories and possessions of the United States. Provides for allotment to States on the basis of school-age population and on the basis of a formula for distribution of aid for disadvantaged school children under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Directs the State educational agency (SEA) to allocate the State allotment to local educational agencies (LEAs) on the basis of similar factors and such other factors as the SEA determines to be essential in carrying out this Act. Allows grants under this Act to be used to pay the Federal share of: (1) planning activities; (2) acquisition of computers and other equipment for computer education; (3) teacher training programs; and (4) software acquisition. Sets forth requirements for State applications for grants under this Act. Sets forth requirements for local applications for payments under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary, through the National Institute of Education, to make grants to or contracts with public agencies and private organizations, including business concerns, for the development, analysis, and dissemination of information relating to improved instruction in computer education. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1985 through 1988. Makes specified provisions of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 relating to participation of children enrolled in private schools applicable to the financial assistance made available under this Act. Directs the Secretary to pay each State, from the amount allotted, the Federal share (75 percent) of the cost of th… | 2025-08-29T17:37:48Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1849 |
| 98-s-1795 | 98 | s | 1795 | Foreign Language Assistance for National Security Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-08-04 | 1983-08-04 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY] | NY | D | M001054 | 7 | Foreign Language Assistance for National Security Act of 1983 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to State educational agencies to fund model programs, designed and operated by local educational agencies, for the improvement and expansion of foreign language study for children aged five through 17 who reside within their school districts. Sets forth formulas for determining the amount of such grants based on state population. Sets forth provisions relating to the availability of such funds. Sets forth grant application requirements for State educational agencies, including provisions for periodic student proficiency evaluation. Provides for program participation by private school children. Requires ratable reduction of such grants when appropriations are insufficient. Directs the Secretary to make grants to State agencies to fund model foreign language programs designed and operated at community and junior colleges. Bases the amount of such grants on State population. Sets forth grant application requirements, including periodic student proficiency evaluation. Requires ratable reduction of such grants when appropriations are insufficient. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education to cover part of the costs of undergraduate foreign language instruction. Sets forth formulas to determine whether an institution is eligible for such grants, based on the percentage of its student body enrolled in qualified postsecondary language courses. Provides that to be eligible for such grants an institution must require that: (1) each entering student have successfully completed at least two years of secondary school foreign language instruction; or (2) each graduating student have earned two years post secondary credit in a foreign language (or have demonstrated equivalent competence in a foreign language). Authorizes the Secretary to establish standards, including reporting requirements, for programs assisted by such grants. Sets forth formulas for determing the amounts o… | 2025-08-29T17:41:38Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1795 |
| 98-s-1744 | 98 | s | 1744 | Pilot Project In Educational Excellence Act | Education | 1983-08-03 | 1983-08-03 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Melcher, John [D-MT] | MT | D | M000635 | 0 | Pilot Project In Educational Excellence Act - Directs the Secretary of Education, within 30 days of enactment of this Act, to notify each State education agency (SEA) of a pilot program to test the theory of the National Commission on Educational Excellence ("the Commission") concerning extending the school year and the length of each schoolday. Sets deadlines for notifications by SEAs and local education agencies (LEAs) to schools and for pilot program applications by schools. Directs the SEA, by a specified deadline and in consultation with the State educational excellence advisory committee, to identify appropriate schools of the types described under this Act and submit a list of such schools to the Secretary. Sets forth requirements for the composition of the State educational excellence advisory committee which is to be appointed by the chief State school officer. Directs the Secretary, from among applications submitted and in consultation with the members of the Commission (or a Commission of persons of equal competence and experience which the Secretary may appoint), to select specified types and minimum numbers of schools for the pilot program. Directs the Commission to evaluate the results of the pilot project and disseminate its findings to Congress and to the public. Guarantees each school selected, for each school year beginning in the Fall of 1984 and for each of the succeeding two years, funds in an amount equal to 35 percent of the school's operating costs during the 1983-84 term, if specified conditions are met. Directs the Secretary to transmit such payments to pilot schools by specified deadlines, with increases for each year of participation by a school. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986 to carry out such Act, with specified amounts reserved to the Secretary for notification and selection. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for evaluation, including appropriate testing, and for wide dissemination of the Commission's findings with respect to such pilot project. Prohibits … | 2025-08-29T17:37:49Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1744 |
| 98-s-1690 | 98 | s | 1690 | Equal Educational Opportunity Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-07-27 | 1983-07-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Denton, Jeremiah [R-AL] | AL | R | D000259 | 0 | Equal Educational Opportunity Act of 1983 - Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) to permit payments to local educational agencies under Chapter 1 (Federal Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children) of such Act to be used for educational voucher programs. Permits parents of educationally deprived children to use such vouchers to pay for: (1) full-time enrollment at private schools or at public schools outside their school district; or (2) compensatory services provided by the LEA to meet their special educational needs at public schools of their school district. Authorizes State educational agencies (SEAs) to require LEAs to use Chapter 1 funds to implement voucher programs. Requires that such State requirement be for all LEAs. Gives each LEA discretion to: (1) use such funds to implement a voucher program (if the SEA does not so require); and (2) distribute vouchers to some or all eligible parents. Sets forth requirements for: (1) authorized educational voucher programs; (2) other LEA special educational needs programs and projects under Chapter 1; and (3) LEA applications to SEAs for voucher programs. Declares that educational voucher program payments made by an LEA to a private school or to another LEA under this Act shall not constitute Federal financial assistance to the LEA or private school receiving such payments. Declares that use of Chapter 1 funds received in exchange for a voucher by a private school or a public school outside the eligible child's school district shall not constitute a program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. Makes specified Chapter 1 provisions inapplicable to educational voucher programs. Sets forth requirements for nondiscrimination by private schools in the voucher program. Prohibits racially discriminatory policies at such schools. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose to appropriate Department of Justice offices or employees any tax return or tax r… | 2025-08-29T17:40:22Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1690 |
| 98-s-1655 | 98 | s | 1655 | Education Partnership for Excellence Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-07-21 | 1983-07-21 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 0 | Education Partnership for Excellence Act of 1983 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for: (1) grants to States for secondary education partnerships; (2) national demonstration and dissemination grants; and (3) a National Partnership Information Clearinghouse. Title I: Grants to States for Secondary Education Partnerships - Sets forth formulas for the distribution of funds for programs under parts A, B, and C of this title. Part A: Grants to Establish Secondary Education Partnerships - Directs the Secretary of Education to reserve from funds for this part specified amounts for payments to certain territories and possessions of the United States and for payments for children enrolled in Indian schools. Directs the Secretary to allocate the remainder among the States on the basis of school-age population. Sets forth a minimum State allotment formula. Requires that funds under this part be used for local educational partnerships to conduct programs for specified improvements in secondary education. Includes among areas for such improvements: (1) curriculum content and relevance to academic and vocational needs of students; (2) student academic competence; (3) increased time spent on academic instruction, particularly by improving student discipline and motivation, reducing high dropout and chronic absentee rates, and increasing study outside school hours and the school setting; (4) skills and quantity of secondary school teachers, particularly by improving teacher preparation, compensation, and benefits; (5) leadership in and management of secondary schools; and (6) addressing of special student needs, such as those of women, minorities, limited English proficient, economically disadvantaged, handicapped, and gifted and talented. Requires each State desiring to receive such assistance to file an application containing specified assurances. Sets forth requirements for applications by local educational agencies (LEAs) to State educational agencies for payments under this part. Part B: Grant… | 2025-08-29T17:40:55Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1655 |
| 98-s-1645 | 98 | s | 1645 | A bill to increase the maximum amount a student may borrow under the GSL and NDSL programs. | Education | 1983-07-20 | 1983-07-28 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Tsongas, Paul E. [D-MA] | MA | D | T000393 | 1 | Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the annual and aggregate loan limits under the insured, guaranteed, and direct student loan programs. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1645 |
| 98-s-1630 | 98 | s | 1630 | Alien Education Assistance Act | Education | 1983-07-16 | 1983-07-28 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Tower, John G. [R-TX] | TX | R | T000322 | 3 | Alien Education Assistance Act - Title I: General Provisions - Defines "alien children" as aliens to whom State or local educational agencies (SEAs or LEAs) provide educational services, including Cuban and Haitian refugee children (as defined under the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986 for payments to which SEAs are entitled under this Act and payments for State administrative costs. Reserves up to one percent of such funds for grants to specified territories and possessions of the United States in amounts to be determined by the Secretary of Education. Reserves up to one percent of such funds for payments for State administrative costs. Sets forth provisions relating to withholding of payments. Permits classroom facilities obtained by an LEA with assistance under specified provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to be used in any fiscal year for educational services of alien children if the number of alien children enrolled in the elementary or secondary public schools under the jurisdiction of such agency during that fiscal year is equal to at least 500 or at least five percent of the total number of students enrolled in such schools. Title II: General Assistance for Local Educational Agencies - Directs the Secretary to make payments to SEAs for FY 1984 through 1986 to assist LEAs to provide basic education for alien children. Bases the amount of such a grant to an SEA on the number of alien children in the public schools multiplied by the average per pupil exepnditure in the State, or $1,000, whichever is less. Sets forth requirements for applications by SEAs for such grants and for payments by the Secretary to SEAs having applications approved. | 2025-08-29T17:38:49Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1630 |
| 98-s-1597 | 98 | s | 1597 | Elementary School Guidance and Counseling Incentive Act | Education | 1983-07-11 | 1983-07-21 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT] | VT | R | S000776 | 3 | Elementary School Guidance and Counseling Incentive Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 through 1987 for basic grant allotments to States for elementary school guidance and counseling programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for: (1) allotments to States for employment of one new or additional elementary school guidance counselor per school district, or both; (2) supplemental grants for elementary school guidance and counseling; (3) research and demonstration programs; (4) evaluation; (5) teacher and counselor centers; and (6) inservice counselor training. Provides formulas, based on the population of elementary school children, for determining allotments to States for such programs. Directs the Secretary of Education to administer State allotments and State plans through the Office of Guidance and Counseling of the Department of Education. Requires that each State, to be eligible for such allotments, submit to the Secretary a State plan for providing comprehensive elementary school guidance and counseling programs for a five-year period, with necessary annual revisions, which meets such criteria as the Secretary may by regulation prescribe. Sets forth required provisions of such plans and programs. Provides for appeal by a State of a final action of the Secretary to a circuit court of appeals. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Office of Guidance and Counseling, to make supplemental grants to States with approved plans for distribution to local educational agencies and for support of State agency leadership activities on the basis of statewide needs and priorities in elementary school guidance and counseling. Sets forth approved uses of such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a research and demonstration program relating to elementary and secondary school guidance and counseling. Directs the Secretary to make an annual evaluation report to the appropriate congressional committees. Provides for a program of in-s… | 2025-08-29T17:41:27Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1597 |
| 98-s-1571 | 98 | s | 1571 | A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act, to provide for the serving of nutritionally superior lunches under such Act. | Education | 1983-06-29 | 1984-10-10 | Committee on Agriculture received executive comment from Agriculture Department. Unfavorable. | Senate | Sen. Pell, Claiborne [D-RI] | RI | D | P000193 | 0 | Amends the National School Lunch Act to require participating schools to: (1) serve specified items in their lunchs and limit or ban certain competitive foods; and (2) establish nutrition councils to oversee such lunch programs. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe implementing regulations within 90 days. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1571 |
| 98-s-1580 | 98 | s | 1580 | Excellence in Education Act | Education | 1983-06-29 | 1983-07-21 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Heinz, John [R-PA] | PA | R | H000456 | 5 | Excellence in Education Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make awards to local educational agencies (LEAs) for elementary and secondary school excellence programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986 to carry out this Act. Directs the Secretary to reserve from such funds specified amounts to carry out provisions for special school awards and for research, evaluation, dissemination, and monitoring activities. Authorizes the Secretary to establish criteria, including specified standards, for the selection of schools to receive awards under this Act. Requires each LEA desiring to participate in such awards program to nominate schools according to specified procedures. Directs the chief State school officer of each State to select, taking specified factors into account, 25 schools from such nominations for submission to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to select up to 500 schools from such nominations after an impartial review panel has considered each submission. Directs the Secretary, in making such selection, to give priority to proposals which include specified types of activities. Sets the amount and conditions of awards. Authorizes the Secretary, from specified reserved funds, to make special school awards to nominated schools to pay a specified Federal share of the cost of the proposed activities, if the LEA provides further assurances that private sector funds will be contributed for carrying out such activities. Directs the Secretary, from specified reserved funds, to conduct research, evaluation, and dissemination activities to assure that exemplary projects and practices developed with assistance under this Act are made available to LEAs throughout the United States. Directs the Secretary to establish an independent panel to monitor the success of the programs assisted by this Act in achieving national objectives in improving instruction and student achievement. | 2025-08-29T17:39:36Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1580 |
| 98-s-1531 | 98 | s | 1531 | School Facilities Child Care Act | Education | 1983-06-23 | 1984-05-25 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 938. | Senate | Sen. Riegle, Donald W., Jr. [D-MI] | MI | D | R000249 | 29 | (Reported to Senate from the Committee on Labor and Human Resources with amendment, S. Rept. 98-494) School Facilities Child Care Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public agencies and private nonprofit organizations having the capacity to furnish school-age child care services in order to assist such agencies and organizations to establish and operate such services in public schools or in community centers in communities where public school facilities are not available. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986. Sets forth information which must be included in applications by such agencies or organizations to the Secretary for such grants. Requires the Secretary, in approving the applications, to: (1) assure that there is an equitable distribution of approved applications; (2) give priority to applications from applicants in communities with the greatest need and a shortage of economic resources for such services; and (3) give consideration to applications who can illustrate an identifiable base of community support. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program of collecting data from recipients of assistance under this Act designed to provide a national-needs assessment for child care services of school-age children in the United States. Requires the Secretary to report annually to specified congressional committees on activities under this Act together with a needs assessment of child care services for school-age children in each State. Requires the Secretary to operate a clearinghouse on school-age child care programs. Sets forth general administrative provisions with respect to carrying out this Act. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1531 |
| 98-s-1495 | 98 | s | 1495 | National Summit Conference on Education Act | Education | 1983-06-16 | 1983-06-29 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 13 | National Summit Conference on Education Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Education for conducting a National Summit Conference on Education. Sets forth provisions for appointment of participants to the Conference and for designation of an Executive Committee of the Conference. Directs the Conference to develop recommendations in response to the findings of the National Commission on Excellence in Education and relating to specified areas of educational policy. Directs the Conference to transmit its recommendations to the President, the Congress, and State Governors by January 31, 1984. Directs the Secretary of Education to reserve a specified amount from appropriations available for FY 1984 for chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to convene the Conference. | 2025-08-29T17:37:46Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1495 |
| 98-s-1386 | 98 | s | 1386 | Income-Dependent Education Assistance Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-05-26 | 1983-06-22 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, Treasury Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Tsongas, Paul E. [D-MA] | MA | D | T000393 | 2 | Income-Dependent Education Assistance Act of 1983 - Title I: System for Making Income-Dependent Education Assistance Loans - Requires the Secretary of Education to establish a program of entering into agreements with guarantee agencies in order to provide funds to postsecondary schools or vocational schools which have entered into agreements under this Act to make loans to students who are eligible for assistance under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Provides that pursuant to such agreements, guarantee agencies shall issue debt obligations approved by the Secretary the proceeds of which shall be allocated among eligible educational institutions. Requires the United States to agree to repay the principal and interest of such debt obligations. Permits guarantee agencies to make loans under this Act for the purpose of discharging liability on federally insured or guaranteed loans under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Provides that the guarantee agency for eligible educational institutions in any State shall be: (1) the State or nonprofit private institution which has an agreement with the State to provide subsidy payments under the State's student loan insurance program; or (2) the State or nonprofit institution of another State which has such an agreement or the Student Loan Marketing Association if there is no such an agreement under effect in the State. Provides that in order to qualify for funds under this Act, an educational institution must enter into an agreement with the Secretary to, in addition to meeting other terms prescribed by the Secretary: (1) use such funds exclusively for student loans; (2) comply with information requirements; (3) notify students of their obligations and responsibilities under the loan program; and (4) repay portions of refunds owed to students who withdraw after receiving loans under the loan program. Permits the Secretary to suspend or revoke such an agreement and to recover funds held by an educational institution for noncompliance with this Act or with the t… | 2025-08-29T17:39:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1386 |
| 98-s-1341 | 98 | s | 1341 | Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1983 | Education | 1983-05-23 | 1983-12-02 | Became Public Law No: 98-199. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 0 | (Measure passed House, amended, in lieu of H. R. 3435) Education of the Handicapped Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Education of the Handicapped Act ("the Act") to revise definitions. Redefines "handicapped children" to include language impaired children. Renames the National Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children as the National Advisory Committee on the Education of Handicapped Children. Includes the Northern Mariana Islands under the definition of "State." Replaces outdated references to the Commissioner of Education and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare with references to the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary"). Defines "handicapped youth" as any handicapped child who is: (1) 12 years of age or older; or (2) enrolled in the seventh or higher grade in school. Establishes, within the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in the Department of Education, an Office of Special Education Programs to be the principal agency for administering and carrying out the Act. Provides that such Office shall be headed by a Deputy Assistant Secretary, with a specified number of persons in certain positions to assist such official. Reestablishes the National Advisory Committee on the Education of Handicapped Children and Youth ("the Advisory Committee"). Authorizes appropriations for the Advisory Committee for FY 1984 through 1986. Revises provisions relating to grants for the removal of architectural barriers. Sets forth requirements for prescribing regulations under the Act. Provides for a 90-day comment period for proposed regulations under the Act (as an exception to the 30-day period prescribed under the General Education Provisions Act). Prohibits the Secretary from implementing, or publishing in final form, any regulation prescribed pursuant to the Act which would procedurally or substantively lessen the protections provided to handicapped children, as embodied in specified regulations, except to the extent that such regulation reflects the clear and unequivocal intent of the Con… | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1341 |
| 98-s-1314 | 98 | s | 1314 | A bill to amend the General Education Provisions Act to preclude the impoundment of loan guarantee or loan insurance authority. | Education | 1983-05-18 | 1983-05-24 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI] | MI | D | L000261 | 0 | Amends the General Education Provisions Act to direct the Secretary of Education, in carrying out any loan guarantee or insurance program, to enter into commitments to guarantee or insure loans pursuant to such program in the full amount provided by law subject only to: (1) the availability of qualified applicants for such guarantee or insurance; and (2) any limitation contained in an appropriation Act. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1314 |
| 98-s-1285 | 98 | s | 1285 | Education for Economic Security Act | Education | 1983-05-16 | 1984-06-27 | Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Voice Vote. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 40 | (Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H. R. 1310 passed in lieu) Education for Economic Security Act - Title I: National Science Foundation Mathematics and Science Programs - Part A: Teacher Institutes - Authorizes the National Science Foundation (the Foundation) to make grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) and institutions of higher education, applying jointly, for teacher institutes to enhance the subject matter skills of public and private elementary and secondary school teachers of mathematics and physical and life sciences. Sets forth application requirements for such grants. Directs the Director of the Foundation: (1) to assure an equitable distribution of such institutes among and within States; and (2) award at least one institute in each State, if each State submits a proposal meeting specified requirements. Limits any such grant to a single applicant to $200,000 in any fiscal year. Permits such institutes to involve the cooperation of advance technology and other businesses able to assist in mathematics and science teaching. Directs the Foundation to ensure that consideration is given to applications designed to meet the needs of underrepresented and underserved populations. Part B: Mathematics and Science Education Development Programs - Authorizes the Foundation to enter into agreements with eligible applicants for programs and materials for: (1) training, retraining, and inservice training of elementary and secondary school teachers in the fields of mathematics and science, including physical and life sciences and computer learning; and (2) elementary and secondary school courses of study in such fields. Makes the following entities eligible applicants for such agreements: (1) an institution of higher education; (2) an SEA or LEA; and (3) a professional society or association in the fields of mathematics, physical or biological sciences, or engineering. Sets forth application requirements for grants and cooperative agreements under this part. Direc… | 2025-08-29T17:39:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1285 |
| 98-s-1273 | 98 | s | 1273 | School Lunch Pilot Project Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-05-12 | 1983-05-20 | Committee on Agriculture requested executive comment from Agriculture Department. | Senate | Sen. Symms, Steven D. [R-ID] | ID | R | S001138 | 8 | School Lunch Pilot Project Act of 1983 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture in carrying out the school lunch pilot project study to: (1) provide to participating school districts, in lieu of commodities, all cash assistance or all commodity letters of credit; (2) continue the study through June 30, 1986; (3) increase the number of participating districts from 60 to 100; (4) meet project expenses from specified sources; (5) consult with and get approval of the Comptroller General before altering such project; and (6) report to the appropriate congressional committees by December 15, 1986. Requires the Comptroller to report to the appropriate congressional committees every six months through June 30, 1986. Requires the Department of Agriculture, upon request, to compensate a participating district for losses sustained as a result of the Department's previous change in project methodology. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. | 2025-08-29T17:39:46Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1273 |
| 98-s-1256 | 98 | s | 1256 | Emergency School Aid Extension Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-05-10 | 1983-06-27 | Subcommittee on Education. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-446. | Senate | Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY] | NY | D | M001054 | 25 | Emergency School Aid Extension Act of 1983 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reestablish the Emergency School Aid Act as title VI of ESEA. Makes the emergency school aid program a categorical grant program to assist public school desegregation. Authorizes appropriations for the emergency school aid program for FY 1984 through 1987. Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to delete references to the emergency school aid program under the block grant provisions of such Act. | 2025-08-29T17:41:24Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1256 |
| 98-s-1209 | 98 | s | 1209 | Child Nutrition Amendments of 1983 | Education | 1983-05-04 | 1983-05-04 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. | Senate | Sen. Helms, Jesse [R-NC] | NC | R | H000463 | 0 | Child Nutrition Amendments of 1983 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to base the amount of cash or commodity assistance given for meals on the actual number of meals served during the previous school year. Permits an adjustment of the amount of assistance if there is a substantial difference between the number of lunches served in the preceding school year and the number of lunches served in the second preceding school year. Delays the inflation adjustment for reimbursement rates and commodities from July 1, 1983, to January 1, 1984 and each January 1 thereafter. Bases the adjustment on the period between the preceding May and the second preceding May of each year. Requires school food authorities to submit reimbursement claims to the State within 60 days after the claiming month. Requires States to submit claims to the Secretary of Agriculture within 90 days after the month for which reimbursement is claimed. Eliminates the two special assistance certification alternatives which base assistance on prior year free or reduced price lunch eligibility. Establishes a special-assistance factor for free lunches at 104 cents. Creates a special-assistance factor for reduced price lunches of 64 cents. Provides for an annual adjustment of the factor for reduced price lunches based on the change in the Consumer Price Index for food away from home. Terminates the following programs: (1) Summer Food Service Program for Children; (2) Child Care Food Program; (3) School Breakfast Program; and (4) Nutrition Education and Training Program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1988 for General Nutrition Assistance Grants to States. Directs the Secretary to allot to a State an amount bearing the same ratio to the total appropriated funds as the State's allotment under the Summer Food Service Program, the Child Care Food Program, and the School Breakfast Program for FY 1982 bore to the total funds appropriated for those programs. Permits adjustment to the allotment level based on the funds transferred to the Head Start Pr… | 2025-08-29T17:38:03Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1209 |
| 98-s-1091 | 98 | s | 1091 | Mathematics and Science Education Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-04-19 | 1983-05-11 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Ordered reported an original bill (S.1285) in lieu of this bill. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 0 | Mathematics and Science Education Act of 1983 - Title I: National Science Foundation Mathematics and Science Programs - Part A: Summer Teacher Institutes - Authorizes the National Science Foundation ("the Foundation") to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) and institutions of higher education, applying jointly, for summer teacher institutes to enhance the subject matter skills of elementary and secondary school teachers of mathematics and physical and life sciences. Sets forth application requirements for such grants. Directs the Director of the Foundation to assure an equitable distribution of such institutes among the States. Part B: Mathematics and Science Education Development Programs - Authorizes the Foundation to enter into cooperative agreements with institutions of higher education and LEAs for: (1) refresher courses for elementary and secondary school teachers in the fields of mathematics and science, including physical and life sciences; and (2) elementary and secondary school curriculum development in such fields. Sets forth application requirements for grants and cooperative agreements under this part. Applies to programs under this part specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act prohibiting Federal control of education. Part C: Science and Mathematics Excellence in Teaching Awards - Authorizes the Foundation to make excellence in teaching mathematics and science awards of $5,000 each to elementary and secondary school teachers. Directs the Foundation to adopt selection procedures designed to assure that such awards will be equitably distributed among the States. Sets forth application requirements for such awards. Part D: General Provisions - Sets forth administrative provisions granting the Foundation specified powers to carry out this title. Directs the Foundation to report annually to the President and the Congress on its operations under this title. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 to carry out this title. Reserves a specified portion of … | 2025-08-29T17:39:20Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1091 |
| 98-s-1093 | 98 | s | 1093 | Mathematics and Science Research Evaluation and Assessment Act | Education | 1983-04-19 | 1983-04-26 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, National Science Foundation, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 2 | Mathematics and Science Research Evaluation and Assessment Act - Directs the Secretary of Education, through the National Institute of Education, to conduct research activities on: (1) retraining programs for teachers to qualify to teach elementary and secondary school mathematics and science; (2) teacher recruitment and training programs in such fields; (3) projects to improve student learning through reading, problem solving, creative and analytic thinking, and writing in such fields; and (4) teacher skill development in using new instructional technology in such fields. Directs the Secretary, through the Institute, to examine: (1) problems in such fields and the relation of Federal assistance to such problems; (2) secondary student interest and skills in such fields; (3) incentives for elementary and secondary school teachers in such fields to remain and develop; and (4) means of attracting secondary school students, with special emphasis on women and minorities, to teach in such fields. Directs the National Science Foundation to conduct research activities to improve the quality of teachers of mathematics and science and students' learning in such fields. Includes among such activities: (1) summer institutes for current mathematics and science teachers; (2) projects encouraging women and minorities to enter careers of teaching in such fields, and increasing their access to such careers; (3) projects for improved access by teachers to science and research institutions; and (4) projects for innovative curriculum and instructional materials development. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1989 for such research activities by the Secretary and by the Foundation. Requires each State educational agency and each State agency for higher education to identify and evaluate exemplary and promising programs assisted under the Education for Economic Security Act. Requires each State to submit a report on such identification and evaluation to the Secretary at the end of each fiscal year beginning after Septemb… | 2025-08-29T17:41:05Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1093 |
| 98-s-1094 | 98 | s | 1094 | High-Technology Training Act | Education | 1983-04-19 | 1983-04-26 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 2 | High-Technology Training Act - Amends the Vocational Education Act of 1963 to establish a program of high-technology training grants. Directs the Secretary of Education to make such grants to States to stimulate vocational education programs to train individuals as high-technology technicians, in accordance with five-year State plans and annual program plans. Requires States to commit specified percentages of their basic grants under such Act to high-technology training programs. Directs States to consider specified factors in evaluating training program proposals of eligible recipients. Requires eligible recipients to provide specified assurances before receiving such training program funds. Authorizes appropriations for high-technology training program grants for FY 1984 and succeeding fiscal years. Makes conforming amendments to allotment provisions under such Act. | 2025-08-29T17:38:16Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1094 |
| 98-s-1055 | 98 | s | 1055 | Mathematics and Science Block Grant Act | Education | 1983-04-14 | 1983-04-26 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Quayle, Dan [R-IN] | IN | R | Q000007 | 0 | Mathematics and Science Block Grant Act - Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to establish a new block grant program for the improvement of education in mathematics and science. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1987. Sets forth provisions for allotment of such funds to States based on school-age populations. Sets a minimum State allotment. Reserves a specified amount for U.S. territories and possessions. Provides that up to 50 percent of each State's allotment shall be available to the State agency for higher education for specified authorized activities. Requires the State educational agency (SEA) to reserve from the remainder at least 15 percent of the State's allotment for specified authorized programs and activities to be conducted at the State level. Directs the SEA to distribute the remainder of the State's allotment to local educational agencies (LEAs) according to the relative enrollments in public and nonpublic schools within the school districts of such LEAs, adjusted in accordance with criteria approved by the Secretary, to provide higher per pupil allocations to LEAs which have the greatest numbers or percentages of children whose education imposes a higher than average cost per child (such as children: (1) from low-income families; (2) in economically depressed areas; or (3) in sparsely populated areas). Sets forth authorized programs and activities for which each SEA and LEA may use funds under this Act. Includes among such authorized activities special projects for: (1) in-service training and retraining of elementary and secondary school teachers of mathematics, science, and computer science; (2) summer institutes in such fields for elementary and secondary school students; and (3) making science an integral part of the elementary and secondary school curricula. Includes, also, among such authorized activities a secondary school industry partnership exchange program involving: (1) exchange of roles by secondary school teachers of mathematics, science,… | 2025-08-29T17:40:05Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1055 |
| 98-s-1056 | 98 | s | 1056 | Science and Technology Faculty Exchange and Institutional Development Act | Education | 1983-04-14 | 1983-04-26 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | I000025 | 1 | Science and Technology Faculty Exchange and Institutional Development Act - Authorizes the National Science Foundation to carry out at eligible institutions: (1) a visiting faculty program for mathematicians, scientists, and engineers with experience in teaching and research in such fields; and (2) a faculty fellowship program for individuals who have demonstrated an interest in teaching and research in such fields and are prepared to return to the institution of higher education which sponsors the individual. Defines "eligible institution" as any institution of higher education which: (1) demonstrates a commitment to meet the special educational needs of students who are members of a minority group or who are economically or educationally disadvantaged; and (2) either has an enrollment which includes a substantial percentage of such students or is located in a community beyond commuting distance of a major institution of higher education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988: (1) in specified amounts to carry out this Act; and (2) in amounts necessary for administrative expenses. Sets forth provisions for selection of visiting faculty scholars, including individual eligibility and application requirements. Sets forth provisions for the faculty fellowship program, including institutional application requirements. Sets forth provisions for support of visiting scholars and fellows. Sets forth administrative provisions. Requires the Director of the Foundation to report annually to the President and the Congress on activities assisted under this Act, with an analysis of programs and with recommendations. | 2025-08-29T17:40:27Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1056 |
| 98-s-1039 | 98 | s | 1039 | Vocational and Adult Education Consolidation Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-04-13 | 1983-04-26 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, Labor Department, Commerce Department, Defense Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 0 | Vocational and Adult Education Consolidation Act of 1983 - Title I: General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act for FY 1983 and such sums as necessary for FY 1984 through FY 1988. Provides that funds appropriated under specified provisions of the Smith-Hughes Act (also known as the Vocational Education Act of 1917) shall be considered as funds appropriated for this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to reserve up to five percent of such appropriations for national programs under title III of this Act. Directs the Secretary to allot the remainder of such appropriations to States and insular areas according to a formula based on: (1) relative amounts of unemployed persons aged 15 through 19, 20 through 44, and 45 through 64; and (2) relative per capita income. Provides for minimum allotments and for reallotment under specified circumstances. Requires States to submit annual proposed use reports to the Secretary, after making such reports available for public comment, in order to receive funds under title II of this Act. Requires States to provide for financial compliance audits of programs supported with title II funds. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to Congress on the status of vocational and adult education in the Nation. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Vocational and Adult Education for the period for which funds are appropriated under this act. Provides for the applicability of specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act to programs under this Act. Title II: State Programs - Directs the Secretary to make grants to each State, in accordance with its allotment, to: (1) establish, expand, and improve vocational educational programs; and (2) support adult education programs. Authorizes each State to set aside that portion of such allotment as is required for the State's administration of the programs, projects, services, and activities described in its proposed use report. Requires each State to use, from the remainder of its allotment… | 2025-08-29T17:41:01Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1039 |
| 98-s-1041 | 98 | s | 1041 | Bilingual Education Improvements Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-04-13 | 1983-04-26 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 0 | Bilingual Education Improvements Act of 1983 - Amends the Bilingual Education Act to revise the statement of purpose and policy. Defines "bilingual education" as a program of instruction with specified characteristics including the acquisition of English language skills (but no longer including currently required study of the native language of children of limited English proficiency to the extent necessary to allow achievement of competence in English). Provides that nothing in such Act shall be construed to require a recipient of funds to use any particular method or approach for providing education to children of limited English proficiency. Revises provisions for grants for bilingual education programs to authorize the Secretary of Education to award such grants to local educational agencies that demonstrate a need to build their capacity for serving children of limited English proficiency. Revises application and other requirements for such bilingual education program grants. Revises personnel requirements for such programs to include only those teachers who are proficient: (1) in English; and (2) to the extent that a program includes the use of a language other than English as a medium of instruction, in such other language. Eliminates specified provisions for State coordination of technical assistance to bilingual education programs. Repeals the requirement that priority in distribution of bilingual education program funds be given to areas having the greatest need for such programs. Revises provisions relating to bilingual education programs in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to conform to the program capacity-building requirements for all such programs under this Act, but permits such programs in Puerto Rico to serve the needs of children of limited Spanish proficiency, as well as those with limited English proficiency, as provided under current law. Includes among criteria for determining the length of time for which a program grant application will be approved the progress the local educational agency… | 2025-08-29T17:41:34Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1041 |
| 98-s-1008 | 98 | s | 1008 | A bill to make certain technical amendments to improve implementation of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, and for other purposes. | Education | 1983-04-07 | 1983-08-04 | Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 1 | (Measure passed Senate, amended) Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) to revise Chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children) provisions. Revises State program design provision to include preschool migratory children as eligible participants in State programs for migratory, handicapped, and neglected and delinquent children. Directs the Secretary of Education to continue to use specified definitions of "currently migratory child," Agricultural activity," and "fishing activity." Prohibits the application of any additional definition of "migratory agricultural worker" or "migratory fisherman." Directs each State educational agency (SEA) to: (1) evaluate Chapter 1 programs at least every two years and make public the evaluation results; and (2) collect data on the race, age, gender, and number of children served by grade-level under such programs. Revises provisions relating to local educational agency (LEA) application assurances. Exempts any LEA with a total enrollment of less than 1,000 children from specified "targeting" requirements for the use of funds to assist low-income educationally disadvantaged children. Requires, among the educationally deprived children selected for an LEA program, the inclusion of those children with the greatest need for special assistance. Requires that local evaluation results be considered by the LEA in improving Chapter 1 programs. Grants LEAs discretion to make certain educational decisions which are consistent with achieving the purposes of Chapter 1. Allows LEAs to designate as eligible, and to serve, school attendance areas with substantially higher numbers or percentages of educationally deprived children before designating and serving areas with higher concentrations of children from low-income families, upon approval by SEAs and after a finding that the delivery of compensatory education service to low-income students will not be impaired. Permits use of Chapter 1 funds for educationally depr… | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1008 |
| 98-s-923 | 98 | s | 923 | Mathematics and Science Education Assistance Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-03-24 | 1983-04-07 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Huddleston, Walter (Dee) [D-KY] | KY | D | H000905 | 3 | Mathematics and Science Education Assistance Act of 1983 - Title I: Grants to States for the Improvement of Skills of Teachers of Mathematics and Science in Elementary and Secondary Schools - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to States for training of elementary and secondary school teachers who wish to earn a degree in science or mathematics. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1984 through 1986. Directs the Secretary to: (1) reserve one percent of such funds for payments to specified U.S. territories and possessions; and (2) allocate the remaining funds among the States (including the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) on the basis of each State's relative number of children aged five through 17. Permits a State to use such grants for grants or loans to teachers wishing to study at an institution of higher education to earn a science or mathematics degree. Requires each State desiring such grants to submit to the Secretary a plan for its teacher assistance program. Lists plan requirements, including requirements that: (1) the State will make stipends to each participating teacher equal to 80 percent of the teacher's compensation for up to two years of study; (2) the State will loan each teacher up to $2,000 each year for educational expenses for not more than two years; (3) each teacher receiving assistance will agree to work as a mathematics or science teacher in an elementary or secondary school in the State for at least five years; (4) the State will cancel 20 percent of any loan to such teacher for each year of service in compliance with such agreement or will establish procedures for the prompt repayment of any loan by a teacher who fails to comply with such agreement; and (5) an annual report will be submitted to the Secretary identifying the number of teachers participating in the program and the local educational agencies at which the teachers were working prior to participating in such program. Directs the Secretary to withhold funds from any … | 2025-08-29T17:39:40Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/923 |
| 98-s-949 | 98 | s | 949 | Mathematics, Science and High Technology Skill Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-03-24 | 1983-04-14 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Chiles, Lawton [D-FL] | FL | D | C000356 | 2 | Mathematics, Science, and High Technology Skill Act of 1983 - Title I: Grants to States for the Improvement of Instruction in Mathematics, Science, and Technology - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for: (1) basic grants for the improvement of instruction in mathematics, science, and technological literacy; and (2) incentive grants for such improvement. Part A: Basic Grants for the Improvement of Instruction in Mathematics, Science, and Technology - Directs the Secretary of Education to pay to States the Federal share of the costs of activities described in approved State plans under this part. Prohibits the making of such basic grants unless the State has prepared and submitted: (1) an assessment of the status of education in mathematics, science, and technology which meets specified requirements; and (2) a State plan in accordance with specified requirements. Sets forth provisions for the allotment to States of sums appropriated to carry out this title. Directs the Secretary to reserve: (1) one percent of such funds for payments to specified U.S. territories and possessions; and (2) one-half of one percent for payments for children enrolled in Indian schools to be allotted in accordance with their respective needs. Directs the Secretary, to allot the remainder among the States (including the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) on the basis of relative numbers of children: (1) of school-age; and (2) in local educational agencies (LEAs) counted under basic grants to LEAs provisions of title I (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). Sets forth requirements for State assessments of education, including statements of needs in the following areas: (1) teacher recruitment and retention; (2) improving teacher qualifications and skills; (3) curriculum improvement; (4) meeting the skill needs of private industry; (5) access for women, minorities, and other underrepresented groups in car… | 2025-08-29T17:39:32Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/949 |
| 98-s-874 | 98 | s | 874 | National Education and Economic Development Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-03-22 | 1983-04-07 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, National Science Foundation, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 2 | National Education and Economic Development Act of 1983 - Title I: Grants to States for Planning, Program Development, and Program Improvement in Mathematics and Science Instruction - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for grants to State educational agencies for: (1) planning and program development in mathematics and science instruction in elementary and secondary schools; and (2) program improvement in such instruction. Requires the Secretary of Education to: (1) reserve up to one percent of such appropriations for payments to specified U.S. territories and possessions and one half of one percent for payments for children enrolled in Indian schools; and (2) allot the remaining funds among the States on the basis of each State's relative number of children aged five through 17. Part A: Grants for Planning and Program Development in Mathematics and Science Instruction in Elementary and Secondary Schools within State Allocation - Requires each State's funds allotted for planning and program development grants to be allocated within the State as follows: (1) 25 percent to the State educational agency for programs designed to improve the quality of science and mathematics instruction at the State level; (2) 70 percent of the remaining funds to local educational agencies on the basis of the relative number of school-age children in the school districts of such agencies; and (3) the remaining funds for distribution by the State educational agency on the basis of the relative number of school-age children from families below and families above the poverty level who attend public schools of local educational agencies in the State. Authorizes a State educational agency to use its allocated funds for: (1) the training of teachers and other personnel in the use of instructional equipment and material and in science and mathematics course content and instructional methods; (2) the dissemination of information evaluating instructional methods, equipment, and material; (3) the development of innovative me… | 2025-08-29T17:38:08Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/874 |
| 98-s-867 | 98 | s | 867 | A bill to authorize assistance to schools impacted by economic dislocations and legal alien immigration along the borders of the United States and Mexico. | Education | 1983-03-21 | 1983-04-07 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Commerce Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Bentsen, Lloyd M. [D-TX] | TX | D | B000401 | 0 | Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to local educational agencies in States bordering Mexico for the construction of school facilities to assist in providing education for legal immigrant children. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such a grant and the eligibility of an agency for a grant based on the number of such children aged five through 17 enrolled in the schools of an agency. Includes for such purposes only such children who reside, or whose parents or guardians reside, in the school district of the agency. Earmarks a specified amount of the appropriations authorized under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 for such grants. Requires that individual agency entitlements be ratably reduced if such amount is not sufficient to pay the full amount all agencies are entitled to receive. Sets forth grant application requirements. Directs the Secretary to withhold grant payments to any agency that fails to comply with the terms of its application until the Secretary is satisfied that there is no longer any failure to comply. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/867 |
| 98-s-836 | 98 | s | 836 | National Diffusion Network Act | Education | 1983-03-17 | 1983-04-07 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Pell, Claiborne [D-RI] | RI | D | P000193 | 14 | National Diffusion Network Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a program to promote the spread of exemplary educational programs, products, and practices to interested elementary and secondary schools. Requires the Secretary to provide for evaluation, information, materials, training, and technical assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, public and nonprofit private educational institutions and organizations to carry out such program. Declares that such program shall be deemed to be a continuation of the National Diffusion Network for which provision is made under the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds available under such Act to such program. Authorizes additional appropriations, if necessary, to carry out such program in FY 1983 through 1986. | 2025-08-29T17:37:54Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/836 |
| 98-s-706 | 98 | s | 706 | Science and Mathematics Teacher Development Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-03-08 | 1983-03-14 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 0 | Science and Mathematics Teacher Development Act of 1983 - Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act for FY 1984 through 1987. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to reserve up to one percent of such funds for grants to insular areas, apportioned according to need. Directs the Secretary, from the remainder of such funds, to make allotments to States based on relative numbers of residents aged 14 through 17. Sets forth provisions for reallotments, from States which do not submit proposed use reports or do not need their full allotment, to States with a current need for additional funds. Directs the Secretary to allot to each Indian tribe, which submits a proposed use report that meets specified requirements, an amount based on the number of members of the tribe aged 14 through 17, and to subtract such Indian allotment from the State allotment of the State or States in which such tribal members reside. Requires States desiring to receive grants under this Act to submit to the Secretary an annual proposed use report for such funds. Sets forth requirement for such reports including publication to facilitate comment from interested agencies, groups, and individuals prior to submission. Provides that only specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act shall apply to programs and activities under this Act. Sets forth audit provisions. Requires each State to use its grant, either directly or through local educational agencies, to increase the number of teachers who are qualified to teach science or mathematics at the secondary level in public or private schools by awarding scholarships for necessary instruction at institutions of higher education. Authorizes a State to use such funds to pay a portion of the total amount of the scholarship (including tuition and stipend) to enable the recipient to acquire the necessary qualifications to teach science or mathematics at the secondary level. Limits such portion of scholarship aid to a recipient to one period of twelve consecutive months or $5,000 towar… | 2025-08-29T17:40:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/706 |
| 98-s-625 | 98 | s | 625 | Federal Correctional Education Assistance Act | Education | 1983-03-01 | 1983-03-07 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Pell, Claiborne [D-RI] | RI | D | P000193 | 3 | Federal Correctional Education Assistance Act - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to provide financial assistance to the States to carry out educational programs for criminal offenders in juvenile and adult correctional institutions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986 to enable the Secretary of Education to make grants to States under this Act. Allows such appropriations to remain available until expended. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to State educational agencies and grants for programs of national significance. Sets forth formulas for the allocation of funds under this Act. Prohibits the use of funds for purposes inconsistent with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. Sets forth permissible uses of grants made to States under this Act, including: (1) academic programs for basic education, special education, bilingual or bicultural study, secondary school credit, postsecondary study, fine arts, recreation and health, and curriculum development; (2) vocational training; (3) library development and services; (4) teacher training; (5) educational release programs; (6) guidance; (7) supportive services; and (8) job training. Sets forth requirements for State applications for assistance under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make, from specified reserved funds, grants to State and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, State correctional agencies, and other public and nonprofit organizations and institutions to meet the costs of programs of national significance which the Secretary determines give promise of improving the education of criminal offenders. Sets forth provisions for payment and withholding of funds under this Act. | 2025-08-29T17:37:45Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/625 |
| 98-s-631 | 98 | s | 631 | High Technology Morrill Act | Education | 1983-03-01 | 1983-03-07 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Treasury Department, Defense Department, Commerce Department, Labor Department, Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Tsongas, Paul E. [D-MA] | MA | D | T000393 | 6 | High Technology Morrill Act - Establishes the Technology Education Trust Fund in the Treasury. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to be the trustee of the Fund and to report to the Congress annually on the Fund's operation. Directs the Secretary to transfer from the Treasury's general fund to the Fund, for FY 1984 through 1988, three percent of the rents, royalties, and other sums paid to the United States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, and any other Federal statute authorizing payments for mineral resource development designated by the Secretary for the purpose of this Act. Limits the amount of such transfers to $500,000,000 in any one fiscal year. Provides that amounts in the Fund shall be available for making payments in accordance with this Act as provided in advance by appropriation Acts, and without fiscal year limitation on availability unless specifically enacted. Prohibits the Secretary from making transfers to the Fund after September 30, 1988. Directs the Secretary to pay into the Treasury's general fund any amounts remaining in the Fund after September 30, 1990. Authorizes the Director of the National Science Foundation to make grants to education institutions, private for-profit business concerns, and State agencies making application jointly to pay the Federal share of the cost of technology education programs. Allows private nonprofit organizations and State agencies to submit applications jointly if the nonprofit private organization represents an educational institution and a for-profit business concern, or a group of such institutions and concerns. Requires that such applications be consistent with State economic development and educational policies and with private sector priorities and educational institution needs. Requires that State and local public sources pay 30 percent, and for-profit businesses pay 20 percent, of total program costs. Sets forth other application requirements. Allows grants made under this Act to be used for: (1) … | 2025-08-29T17:41:42Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/631 |
| 98-s-600 | 98 | s | 600 | A bill to amend P.L. 95-244. | Education | 1983-02-24 | 1983-10-25 | Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Interior Department, OMB. | Senate | Sen. DeConcini, Dennis [D-AZ] | AZ | D | D000185 | 1 | Amends Federal law relating to Federal impact aid payments by the Secretary of the Interior to school districts within Grand Canyon National Park. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain in a special fund a portion of park revenues for the maintenance and operation of federally owned facilities and property used for school purposes. | 2025-04-23T11:41:33Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/600 |
| 98-s-553 | 98 | s | 553 | American Defense Education Act | Education | 1983-02-22 | 1983-03-07 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, Defense Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Hart, Gary W. [D-CO] | CO | D | H000287 | 30 | American Defense Education Act - Authorizes a national program to provide incentives to local educational agencies to improve: (1) instruction in mathematics, science, and communication skills, foreign languages, and technology; and (2) guidance and counseling. Title I: Elementary and Secondary Education Programs - Requires local education agencies which desire to participate in such national program to develop and carry out a program of improvement of instruction and student achievement. Sets forth requirements for such programs. Entitles participating local educational agencies to receive basic payments for each fiscal year equal to two percent of an established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Entitles agencies which show substantial evidence of meeting program goals to an incentive payment equal to an additional two percent of the established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Sets forth formulae for establishing such payment rate. Sets forth requirements for applications for payments. Directs the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary") to approve applications which meet such requirements. Title II: Teacher Training and Postsecondary Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program of grants to institutions of higher education for coordination between such institutions and local educational agencies in improving science and mathematics education, through precollege teacher training, development, and recruitment programs. Sets forth requirements for grant proposals and priorities in grant selection. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 for such grants. Title III: Research to Improve Instruction - Directs the Secretary to administer, through the National Institute of Education (NIE) in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies, a program to support research and development into effective education in mathematics, the sciences, foreign languages, and technology. Authorizes appropriations in the Department of Education to be made ava… | 2025-08-29T17:37:37Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/553 |
| 98-s-530 | 98 | s | 530 | Education for Economic Security Act | Education | 1983-02-17 | 1983-05-11 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Ordered reported an original bill (S.1285) in lieu of this bill. | Senate | Sen. Pell, Claiborne [D-RI] | RI | D | P000193 | 25 | Education for Economic Security Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make matching grants to States to pay the Federal share of the costs of strengthening instruction in mathematics, science, computer education, foreign languages, and vocational education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986. Directs the Secretary to allot to each State from such appropriations for each fiscal year an amount based on the relative number of children aged five through 17 in such State. Provides that no State shall receive less than one-half of one percent of the funds appropriated for any fiscal year. Provides for reallotments, based on the Secretary's estimates, of sums exceeding a State's needs. Authorizes additional appropriations for allotment to: (1) Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; (2) the Secretary of the Interior for programs in schools operated for Indian children; and (3) the Secretary of Defense for programs in overseas dependent schools. Apportions 65 percent of each State's allotment to elementary, secondary, and vocational education programs and 35 percent to higher education programs. Directs State educational agencies to distribute a specified percentage of the elementary, secondary, and vocational education apportionment to local educational agencies for mathematics and science instruction, foreign language instruction, and computer education programs, together with related instructional materials. Bases such distribution upon the relative numbers of children aged five through 17 in the schools and upon the size of the proposed programs. Bases renewals of such payments upon such criteria and upon a determination that the local program serves substantial numbers of students and involves several grade levels. Requires each State education agency to: (1) distribute a specified percentage of its apportionment for foreign language instruction; and (2) use a specified percentage for exemplary programs… | 2025-08-29T17:41:15Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/530 |
| 98-s-401 | 98 | s | 401 | National Science and Mathematics Teachers Development Act | Education | 1983-02-02 | 1983-02-22 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 17 | National Science and Mathematics Teachers Development Act - Establishes the National Science and Mathematics Teachers Development Board in the Department of Education. Requires that the functions of the Secretary of Education under this Act be carried out through the Board. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education for continuing education programs designed to improve the skills and competence of secondary school teachers of science and mathematics. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations for related administrative expenses. Sets forth application requirements for program participation by institutions of higher education. Directs the Secretary to establish criteria to achieve equitable distribution of assistance under this Act among the States and areas within each State. Limits the amount of any grant under this Act to a single institution of higher education to $200,000. Authorizes the Secretary to make supplementary matching grants to institutions of higher education under specified conditions. Limits each such grant to $250,000. Sets forth provisions for payments to institutions of higher education under this Act. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress by December 31, 1985, on expenditures under this Act, Board activities, and types of grants made, with recommendations for further legislation to develop adequate science and mathematics teacher training. | 2025-08-29T17:40:55Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/401 |
| 98-s-402 | 98 | s | 402 | Emergency School Aid Act | Education | 1983-02-02 | 1983-02-22 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY] | NY | D | M001054 | 7 | Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reestablish the Emergency School Aid Act as title VI of ESEA. Makes the emergency school aid program a categorical grant program to assist public school desegregation. Authorizes appropriations for the emergency school aid program for FY 1984 through 1987. Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to delete references to the emergency school aid program under the block grant provisions of such Act. | 2025-08-29T17:38:24Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/402 |
| 98-s-289 | 98 | s | 289 | Precollege Mathematics and Science Teacher Assistance Act | Education | 1983-01-31 | 1983-02-22 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Glenn, John H., Jr. [D-OH] | OH | D | G000236 | 7 | Precollege Mathematics and Science Teacher Assistance Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a program of direct loans to students in institutions of higher education who are preparing to be precollege mathematics and science teachers. Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a program of establishing and maintaining funds at institutions of higher education for making low-interest loans to students who: (1) pursue baccalaureate degree courses of study in mathematics and/or science; and (2) intend to enter the precollege mathematics and science teaching profession. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through FY 1989 to carry out such program. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1989 through FY 1994 to enable students who have received loans for academic years ending prior to October 1, 1989, to continue or complete courses of study. Directs the Secretary to make payments to institutions of higher education on the basis of the estimated needs of such institutions for making such student loans. Sets forth conditions for such payments and for the agreements with the Secretary which such institutions must make in order to receive such payments. Sets forth the terms of such student loans. Sets forth eligibility requirements for students. Sets forth requirements for agreements between any institution and a student receiving such a loan from the student loan fund (including agreements which require commitments to teach or commitments to repay such loans). Provides for cancellation of such student loans at the rate of 25 percent for each complete year of service after the date of enactment of this Act as a full-time science or mathematics teacher in an elementary or secondary school academic year. Provides for cancellation of the entire amount of interest which accrues for any year in which a portion of the loan is cancelled. | 2025-08-29T17:39:11Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/289 |
| 98-s-248 | 98 | s | 248 | National Mathematics and Science Excellence in Education Act of 1983 | Education | 1983-01-27 | 1983-02-22 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, National Science Foundation, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] | NM | R | D000407 | 8 | National Mathematics and Science Excellence in Education Act of 1983 - Title I: Science and Mathematics Education Merit Scholarships and Teaching Awards - Congressional Science and Mathematics Education Merit Scholarships and Teaching Awards Act - Authorizes the National Science Foundation to award scholarships to individuals who demonstrate outstanding potential for, and who plan to pursue, careers in teaching mathematics or science in elementary or secondary schools. Limits the period of such a scholarship to two academic years at any institution of higher education offering educational activities designed to prepare individuals for such careers. Authorizes the Foundation, after consultation with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology, to establish criteria for the selection of merit scholars. Limits the number of scholars selected to ten individuals from each State and five individuals from each congressional district in each State (and ten individuals in the case of the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico). Requires each merit scholarship recipient to agree to pursue such a teaching career for at least three years upon completion of the training for which the scholarship was awarded. Requires the Director of the Foundation to submit the names of the individuals selected to the appropriate State Commission on Excellence in Mathematics and Science established under title II of this Act for review and approval. Limits merit scholarship stipends to $2,500 for each academic year of study. Conditions scholarship payment upon the student's maintaining satisfactory proficiency and full-time study. Authorizes the Foundation to require reports on student progress. Authorizes the Foundation to make experienced mathematics and science teacher awards for elementary and secondary school teachers. Sets such awards at $5,000 for those who have taught for at least five years and $10,000 for those who have taught at least ten years. Limits such awards to two $5,000 and two $10,000 awards … | 2025-08-29T17:40:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/248 |
| 98-s-112 | 98 | s | 112 | A bill to make certain technical amendments to improve implementation of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, and for other purposes. | Education | 1983-01-26 | 1983-02-22 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, GAO, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 1 | Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) to revise Chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children) provisions. Revises State program design provision to include preschool migratory children as eligible participants in State programs for migratory, handicapped, and neglected and deliquent children. Directs the Secretary of Education to continue to use a specified definition of "currently migratory child." Revises provisions relating to local educational agency (LEA) application assurances. Exempts any LEA with a total enrollment of less than 1,000 children from specified "targeting" requirements for the use of funds to assist low-income educationally disadvantaged children. Grants LEAs discretion to make certain educational decisions which are consistent with achieving the purposes of Chapter 1. Allows LEAs to designate any school attendance area in which at least 25 percent of the children are from low-income families, as an eligible school attendance area for any fiscal year if the amount of State and local funds for eligible areas does not decline. Allows LEAs to designate as eligible, and to serve, school attendance areas with substantially higher numbers or percentages of educationally deprived children before designating and serving areas with higher concentrations of children from low-income families, upon approval by State educational agencies (SEAs) and after a finding that the delivery of compensatory education service to low-income students will not be impaired. Permits use of Chapter 1 funds for educationally deprived children in a school not located in an eligible school attendance area when the proportion of children from low-income families in average daily attendance in such school is substantially equal to the proportion of such children in an eligible school attendance area of the LEA. Permits continued designation, for an additional fiscal year, of any eligible school attendance area or eligible school which has been so … | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/112 |
| 98-s-122 | 98 | s | 122 | Social Security Reorganization Act of 1984 | Education | 1983-01-26 | 1983-02-22 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN] | MN | R | D000566 | 0 | Repeals specified provisions of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1983 (Public Law 97-252) that make draft nonregistrants under the Military Selective Service Act ineligible for any form of student aid provided under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. | 2025-08-29T17:40:06Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/122 |
| 98-s-192 | 98 | s | 192 | A bill to amend statutes relating to the talking books program to include mentally handicapped individuals, and for other purposes. | Education | 1983-01-26 | 1983-01-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules. | Senate | Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | I000025 | 1 | Amends specified Federal laws relating to the talking books program to include services for the mentally handicapped. (Such laws provide books for the adult blind and establish in the Library of Congress a library of musical scores and other instructional materials to further educational, vocational, and cultural opportunities in the field of music for blind persons.) | 2025-01-14T17:21:40Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/192 |
| 98-s-87 | 98 | s | 87 | Guaranteed Student Loan Assistance Amendments of 1983 | Education | 1983-01-26 | 1983-02-22 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Education Department, OMB. | Senate | Sen. Jepsen, Roger W. [R-IA] | IA | R | J000101 | 0 | Guaranteed Student Loan Assistance Amendments of 1983 - Amends title IV, part B (Federal, State, and Private Programs of Low-Interest Insured Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require eligible institutions to provide the lender with a statement evidencing a determination of need for a loan and the amount of such need in order for a student to qualify for a portion of an interest payment under the guaranteed student loan program. (Currently, such a statement of need is required only for a student whose family has an adjusted gross income greater than $30,000.) Repeals provisions which provide that an amount of need between $500 and $1,000 would qualify a student for a $1,000 loan under the guaranteed student loan program. | 2025-08-29T17:39:19Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/87 |
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