S 1552 · 111th Congress 2009–2011, ended

SOAR Act

Introduced Jul 30, 2009 Originated Senate Sponsor Joseph I. Lieberman D-CT

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jul 31, 2009 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 145.

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.

  1. IntroducedJul 30, 2009
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act of 2009 or the SOAR Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award five-year grants on a competitive basis to nonprofit organizations to carry out activities to provide expanded school choice opportunities to students who are DC residents and who come from households: (1) receiving assistance under the supplemental nutrition assistance program under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008; and (2) with incomes not exceeding 185% of the poverty line, except in certain grandfathered circumstances.

Prescribes requirements for schools participating in such grant programs, including administering nationally norm-referenced standardized tests in reading and mathematics to participating students.

Repeals the DC School Choice Incentive Act of 2003 (title III of division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004). Deems this Act as the reauthorization of the opportunity scholarship program under such Act.

Cosponsors 6

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 30, 2009 to Aug 6, 2009, with 5 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CADianne FeinsteinOriginalJul 30, 2009
R-OHGeorge V. VoinovichOriginalJul 30, 2009
R-NVJohn EnsignOriginalJul 30, 2009
D-WVRobert C. ByrdOriginalJul 30, 2009
R-MESusan M. CollinsOriginalJul 30, 2009
R-TNLamar AlexanderAug 6, 2009

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jul 31, 2009Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 145.
  2. Jul 30, 2009Introduced in Senate
  3. Jul 30, 2009Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
  4. Jul 30, 2009Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8565-8566)

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jul 31, 2009Placed on Calendar Senate

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