HR 2547 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

No Child Left Inside Act of 2011

Introduced Jul 14, 2011 Originated House Sponsor John P. Sarbanes D-MD

Latest action · Sep 8, 2011 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.

IntroducedJul 14, 2011
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

No Child Left Inside Act of 2011 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states, as a prerequisite to receiving implementation grants, to develop environmental literacy plans, approved by the Secretary of Education, for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 that include environmental education standards and teacher training.

Directs the Secretary to award Environmental Education Professional Development Grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to partnerships that include a local educational agency (LEA) and, permissibly, institutions of higher education (IHE), other educational entities, or federal, state, regional, or local natural resource or environmental agencies, for activities involving, among other things, teacher training and the development of more rigorous environmental education curricula that advance the teaching of interdisciplinary courses.

Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive matching grants to partnerships that include an LEA and, permissibly, IHEs, other educational entities, federal, state, regional, or local natural resource or environmental agencies, or park and recreation departments, for activities to improve and support environmental education that include: (1) advancing content and achievement standards, and (2) developing or disseminating innovations or model programs.

Cosponsors 60

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 14, 2011 to Nov 15, 2012; 39 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-OH	Betty Sutton	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-CA	Bob Filner	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-ME	Chellie Pingree	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-NC	David E. Price	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-VA	James P. Moran	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-RI	James R. Langevin	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-CO	Jared Polis	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-CA	Jerry McNerney	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-CT	Joe Courtney	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-MA	John W. Olver	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-FL	Kathy Castor	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-MN	Keith Ellison	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-NM	Martin Heinrich	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-VT	Peter Welch	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-NJ	Rush Holt	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-NV	Shelley Berkley	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-NY	Steve Israel	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin	Original	Jul 14, 2011
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Jul 21, 2011
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jul 28, 2011
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Jul 28, 2011
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Sep 8, 2011
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Sep 8, 2011
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Oct 4, 2011
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Dec 8, 2011
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Dec 8, 2011
D-MI	Hansen Clarke		Jan 17, 2012
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Mar 20, 2012
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Apr 17, 2012
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Jul 12, 2012
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Jul 19, 2012
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Jul 19, 2012
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jul 26, 2012
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Jul 26, 2012
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Aug 2, 2012
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Sep 13, 2012
D-CA	Lois Capps		Sep 19, 2012
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Nov 13, 2012
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		Nov 15, 2012

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 Jul 14, 2011
	Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee	Referred Sep 8, 2011

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Sep 8, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Jul 14, 2011Introduced in House
Jul 14, 2011Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1321)
Jul 14, 2011Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

In the Congressional Record 2

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 E1687	John P. Sarbanes D-MD	Sep 22, 2011
Extensions	Debate and remarks E1321	John P. Sarbanes D-MD	Jul 14, 2011

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H5087.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1372	No Child Left Inside Act of 2011	Related bill	Jul 14, 2011

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 regarding environmental education, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: No Child Left Inside Act of 2011

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jul 14, 2011Introduced in House

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