Small Business Employment and Education Enhancement Act of 2001
Latest action · Jan 25, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedJan 25, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) disseminate information and facilitate the sharing of information designed to assist small businesses in working with school systems to improve the education system through specified means, including the Internet World Wide Web; (2) establish a centralized database of materials to act as a clearinghouse for information on successful initiatives and best practices regarding the involvement of small businesses in education; and (3) study and report to Congress on the challenges facing small businesses in obtaining workers with adequate skills.
Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish an Office of Small Business Education, administered by a Director, to: (1) review the needs of small businesses and the contributions the small business community may make with respect to efforts to improve education; (2) promote efforts to address the needs of small businesses though education programs; (3) work to remove impediments to partnerships between school systems and small businesses; and (4) propose solutions to education-related problems facing small businesses.
Requires the Director to provide technical assistance to small businesses, small business organizations, school systems, and communities working cooperatively to improve education outcomes.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a small business education opportunity tax credit for qualified education opportunity expenses.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Jan 25, 2001 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 25, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Jan 25, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S571-572)
- Jan 25, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S571 | Olympia J. Snowe R-ME | Jan 25, 2001 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to enhance Department of Education efforts to facilitate the involvement of small business owners in State and local initiatives to improve education.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Small Business Employment and Education Enhancement Act of 2001
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Business education
- Business income tax
- Commerce
- Computers and government
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Department of Education
- Education
- Educational innovations
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Employment tax credits
- Entrepreneurs
- Executive reorganization
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publications
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Higher education
- Income tax
- Internet
- Job creation
- Labor and Employment
- Labor supply
- Public service advertising
- Public-private partnerships
- Recruiting of employees
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Secondary school students
- Skilled labor
- Small business
- Student employment
- Tax credits
- Taxation
- Teacher education
- Teachers
- Teaching materials
- Wages
- Web sites
- World Wide Web
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 25, 2001Introduced in Senate
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