Keep Our PACT Act
Latest action · Mar 24, 2005 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.
- IntroducedJan 25, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act - Keep Our PACT Act - Makes appropriations in order to provide for the full funding of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (ESEA-NCLBA), and for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Makes such appropriations for ESEA-NCLBA programs in amounts for each of FY 2006 through 2011 which equal the difference between other appropriations and specified amounts for each of those fiscal years.
Amends IDEA to authorize and make appropriations for: (1) each of FY 2006 through 2011 in specified amounts; and (2) for FY 2012 and each subsequent fiscal year, in the amount that is the total for all States of the maximum amounts necessary to fully fund 40 percent of the average per pupil expenditure for IDEA part B programs of assistance for education of all children with disabilities.
Cosponsors 92
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 25, 2005 to Nov 13, 2006; 31 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Anthony D. Weiner | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-OR | David Wu | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-CA | Diane E. Watson | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-HI | Ed Case | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-CA | George Miller | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-GA | John Barrow | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-MA | John F. Tierney | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-NY | Joseph Crowley | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-HI | Neil Abercrombie | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-VA | Robert C. "Bobby" Scott | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Robert E. Andrews | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-WI | Ron Kind | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-TX | Ruben Hinojosa | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Rush Holt | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-CA | Susan A. Davis | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-NY | Timothy H. Bishop | Original | Jan 25, 2005 |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Mar 15, 2005 | |
| D-OH | Ted Strickland | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Apr 26, 2005 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Apr 26, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | May 2, 2005 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | May 19, 2005 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | May 19, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Xavier Becerra | May 19, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Jerry F. Costello | Jun 7, 2005 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Jun 7, 2005 | |
| D-WA | Jay Inslee | Jun 8, 2005 | |
| D-MI | Bart Stupak | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-KY | Ben Chandler | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Jul 19, 2005 | |
| D-OR | Darlene Hooley | Jul 26, 2005 | |
| D-TX | Henry Cuellar | Jul 26, 2005 | |
| D-WA | Rick Larsen | Jul 26, 2005 | |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Jul 28, 2005 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Sep 7, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Brian Higgins | Sep 7, 2005 | |
| D-CT | John B. Larson | Sep 7, 2005 | |
| D-ME | Thomas H. Allen | Sep 7, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Sep 8, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Howard L. Berman | Sep 13, 2005 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Sep 13, 2005 | |
| D-IN | Julia Carson | Sep 15, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Louise McIntosh Slaughter | Sep 15, 2005 | |
| D-AR | Marion Berry | Sep 15, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Tom Lantos | Sep 15, 2005 | |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Sep 27, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Oct 6, 2005 | |
| D-TN | Harold E. Ford Jr. | Oct 6, 2005 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Oct 6, 2005 | |
| D-WV | Nick J. Rahall II | Oct 6, 2005 | |
| D-VA | Rick Boucher | Oct 6, 2005 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Oct 18, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | Oct 18, 2005 | |
| D-AR | Mike Ross | Oct 18, 2005 | |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Dec 6, 2005 | |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Dec 15, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | Dec 15, 2005 | |
| D-MD | Albert Russell Wynn | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Silvestre Reyes | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Mar 1, 2006 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Joe Baca | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-IL | Rahm Emanuel | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Mar 14, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Mar 14, 2006 | |
| D-IL | Lane Evans | Mar 14, 2006 | |
| D-MO | Russ Carnahan | Mar 16, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Charles A. Gonzalez | Mar 28, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Apr 25, 2006 | |
| D-NC | Bob Etheridge | Jul 26, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Al Green | Sep 6, 2006 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Sep 6, 2006 | |
| D-GA | David Scott | Sep 12, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Ellen O. Tauscher | Sep 13, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Nov 13, 2006 |
Committees 2
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 Jan 25, 2005 |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Mar 24, 2005 | |
| House | Appropriations Committee | Referred Jan 25, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 24, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Jan 25, 2005Introduced in House
- Jan 25, 2005Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E78 | Chris Van Hollen D-MD | Jan 25, 2005 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require full funding of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act
- Keep Our PACT Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 25, 2005Introduced in House
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