Mentoring America's Children Act of 2009
Latest action · Mar 23, 2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
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 9, 2009
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Mentoring America's Children Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make miscellaneous changes to the Mentoring grant program under title IV that include: (1) improvement of school connectedness and character education among mentoring's purposes; (2) corporations, universities, and other entities among program providers; (3) a requirement that mentors help children become responsible and successful adults; (4) suburban children in high crime areas and children living in high gang involvement, drug use, or dropout areas among those most in need of mentoring; (5) limitation of each mentor to no more than three children; and (6) mandatory information on grant applicants about plans for monitoring mentor/mentee matches and the satisfaction of grant matching requirements that increase from 10% to 50% over the three-year grant term.
Allows grantees to be considered for new grants if: (1) their prior performance was satisfactory; (2) they propose to use the new grant exclusively for expanded service to a new area or population; and (3) they are able to provide a 50% match to the new grant funds.
Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) provide training and technical assistance to grantees, and track and evaluate their performance; and (2) arrange for research on school-based mentoring, the results of which are to be provided to the mentoring community.
Includes mentoring in ESEA programs for: (1) Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native education; (2) the transitioning of youth offenders into education; and (3) school violence and drug abuse prevention.
Cosponsors 18
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 9, 2009 to Jul 24, 2009; 6 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Feb 9, 2009 |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Original | Feb 9, 2009 |
| D-IL | Jerry F. Costello | Original | Feb 9, 2009 |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | Original | Feb 9, 2009 |
| R-MI | Mike Rogers | Original | Feb 9, 2009 |
| D-RI | Patrick J. Kennedy | Original | Feb 9, 2009 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Feb 25, 2009 | |
| D-PA | Joe Sestak | Feb 25, 2009 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Feb 25, 2009 | |
| D-TX | Ruben Hinojosa | Feb 25, 2009 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Mar 5, 2009 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Mar 5, 2009 | |
| D-KY | John A. Yarmuth | Mar 11, 2009 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Mar 11, 2009 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | May 18, 2009 | |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Jun 2, 2009 | |
| D-AZ | Ed Pastor | Jun 8, 2009 | |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Jul 24, 2009 |
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 Feb 9, 2009 |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Mar 23, 2009 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 23, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
- Feb 9, 2009Introduced in House
- Feb 9, 2009Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E222)
- Feb 9, 2009Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
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 E222 | Susan A. Davis D-CA | Feb 9, 2009 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to strengthen mentoring programs, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Mentoring America's Children Act of 2009
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance and assessments
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Education programs funding
- Elementary and secondary education
- Higher education
- Indian social and development programs
- Juvenile crime and gang violence
- Minority education
- Performance measurement
- Policy sciences
- Public-private cooperation
- Violent crime
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 9, 2009Introduced in House
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.
