HR 1201 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Reading Readiness Act of 2001

Introduced Mar 22, 2001 Originated House Sponsor Adam B. Schiff D-CA

Latest action · May 8, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMar 22, 2001
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Reading Readiness Act of 2001 - Amends the Head Start Act to require Head Start programs to include a strong focus on reading readiness. Requires research, demonstration, and evaluation activities to: (1) determine whether every Head Start program is providing participating children the tools necessary to succeed in school, including reading readiness; and (2) review current best practices of Head Start programs with respect to reading readiness.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award competitive grants to selected Head Start applicants to carry out current best practices in reading readiness activities.

Allows Head Start programs that demonstrate by community assessment that all reasonable attempt has been made to enroll children whose families' incomes are below the poverty line to make eligible for program participation children whose families' incomes are no greater than 150 percent of the poverty line.

Directs the Secretary to implement an outreach campaign to promote enrollment in Head Start programs and Early Head Start programs.

Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Secretary should allow Head Start grantees that find evidence of community need to modify the use of their current grants so as to enroll infants and toddlers without obtaining a separate Early Head Start grant; and (2) Congress should appropriate sufficient funds to carry out the Head Start Act so that all eligible children may participate.

Cosponsors 49

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 22, 2001 to Sep 4, 2002; 11 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-WA	Adam Smith	Original	Mar 22, 2001
D-TN	Bob Clement	Original	Mar 22, 2001
D-NC	Bob Etheridge	Original	Mar 22, 2001
D-CA	Calvin M. Dooley	Original	Mar 22, 2001
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Original	Mar 22, 2001
D-CT	James H. Maloney	Original	Mar 22, 2001
D-VA	James P. Moran	Original	Mar 22, 2001
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez	Original	Mar 22, 2001
D-TX	Martin Frost	Original	Mar 22, 2001
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts	Original	Mar 22, 2001
D-CA	Tom Lantos	Original	Mar 22, 2001
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Mar 29, 2001
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Mar 29, 2001
D-IN	Julia Carson		Mar 29, 2001
D-OK	Brad Carson		Apr 4, 2001
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Apr 25, 2001
D-VA	Rick Boucher		May 1, 2001
R-CT	Rob Simmons		May 1, 2001
D-MA	Barney Frank		May 9, 2001
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald		May 9, 2001
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		May 9, 2001
D-HI	Patsy T. Mink		May 9, 2001
D-CA	George Miller		Jun 12, 2001
D-CA	Jane Harman		Jun 21, 2001
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		Jul 27, 2001
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Jul 31, 2001
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jul 31, 2001
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Sep 6, 2001
D-NY	Major R. Owens		Sep 6, 2001
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Oct 4, 2001
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Mar 7, 2002
D-MI	Lynn N. Rivers		Apr 17, 2002
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Jun 17, 2002
D-GA	Cynthia A. McKinney		Jun 17, 2002
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jun 17, 2002
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Jun 17, 2002
D-MO	Karen McCarthy		Jun 17, 2002
D-TX	Nick Lampson		Jun 17, 2002
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Jun 17, 2002
D-GU	Robert A. Underwood		Jun 17, 2002
D-IL	Rod R. Blagojevich		Jun 17, 2002
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Jun 24, 2002
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		Jun 24, 2002
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Jun 24, 2002
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Jun 24, 2002
D-FL	Peter Deutsch		Jul 11, 2002
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Jul 26, 2002
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Sep 4, 2002
D-CA	Diane E. Watson		Sep 4, 2002

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Mar 22, 2001
	Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee	Referred May 8, 2001

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

May 8, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Mar 22, 2001Introduced in House
Mar 22, 2001Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Head Start Act to ensure that every child who is eligible to participate in a program under such Act has the tools to learn to read.
Short Titles as Introduced: Reading Readiness Act of 2001

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 22, 2001Introduced in House

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