Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Act of 2001
Latest action · Feb 14, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1400-1401)
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.
- IntroducedFeb 14, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Cosponsors 19
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 14, 2001 to May 14, 2001; 13 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| D-NV | Harry Reid | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| D-WV | John D. Rockefeller IV | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| R-RI | Lincoln Chafee | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| D-MT | Max Baucus | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| D-MN | Paul D. Wellstone | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| D-MD | Paul S. Sarbanes | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| R-MS | Thad Cochran | Original | Feb 14, 2001 |
| D-SD | Tim Johnson | Feb 28, 2001 | |
| R-ME | Olympia J. Snowe | Mar 12, 2001 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Feb 14, 2001 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 14, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Feb 14, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1399-1400, S1401-1402)
- Feb 14, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1400-1401)
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.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide up-to-date school library media resources and well-trained, professionally certified school library media specialists for elementary schools and secondary schools, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Act of 2001
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Arts, Culture, Religion
- Books
- Community and school
- Computer literacy
- Computer-assisted instruction
- Computers in education
- Curricula
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational accountability
- Educational statistics
- Educational technology
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Federal aid to education
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Higher education
- Information storage and retrieval systems
- Internet
- Librarians
- Libraries
- School libraries
- School personnel
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Student activities
- Teacher education
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 14, 2001Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
