S 1597 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Fix America's Schools Today Act of 2011

Introduced Sep 21, 2011 Originated Senate Sponsor Sherrod Brown D-OH

Fact sheet

Latest action · Sep 21, 2011 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Progress

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IntroducedSep 21, 2011
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Fix America's Schools Today Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Education to allocate grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to modernize, renovate, or repair early learning or elementary or secondary education facilities.

Requires the Secretary to allocate grants directly to the 100 LEAs with the largest numbers of children aged 5-17 living in poverty to modernize, renovate, or repair such facilities. Allocates such funds among these LEAs in proportion to each LEA's respective share of school improvement funds under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Requires states to give subgrant priority to projects that comply with certain green building standards.

Prohibits the use of such grants for new construction, routine janitorial costs, or on facilities used for events for which the public is charged admission.

Reserves funds for a survey, by the National Center for Education Statistics, of our public school construction, modernization, renovation, and repair needs.

Directs the Secretary to allocate grants to states to modernize, renovate, or repair existing facilities at community colleges.

Prohibits the use of such grants: (1) for routine janitorial costs, (2) on facilities used for events for which the public is charged admission, or (3) on facilities which are used for sectarian purposes.

Requires states, in providing assistance to community college projects, to consider the extent to which the project complies with certain green building standards.

Limits the amount of time states and LEAs have to obligate this Act's grants and subgrants.

Requires, with certain exceptions, the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in projects funded by this Act to be domestic.

Applies the prevailing wage rate requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act to projects assisted pursuant to this Act.

Cosponsors 18

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 21, 2011 to Mar 29, 2012, with 7 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-MN	Al Franken	Original	Sep 21, 2011
I-VT	Bernard Sanders	Original	Sep 21, 2011
D-HI	Daniel K. Akaka	Original	Sep 21, 2011
D-OR	Jeff Merkley	Original	Sep 21, 2011
D-NY	Kirsten E. Gillibrand	Original	Sep 21, 2011
D-IL	Richard J. Durbin	Original	Sep 21, 2011
D-RI	Sheldon Whitehouse	Original	Sep 21, 2011
D-OR	Ron Wyden		Sep 23, 2011
D-AK	Mark Begich		Sep 26, 2011
D-VT	Patrick J. Leahy		Sep 26, 2011
D-MD	Barbara A. Mikulski		Nov 15, 2011
D-MD	Benjamin L. Cardin		Nov 18, 2011
D-CT	Richard Blumenthal		Nov 29, 2011
D-WV	John D. Rockefeller IV		Dec 14, 2011
D-CA	Barbara Boxer		Dec 16, 2011

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Actions 2

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Sep 21, 2011Introduced in Senate
Sep 21, 2011Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Related bills 5

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 12	American Jobs Act of 2011	Related bill	Oct 21, 2011
S 1549	American Jobs Act of 2011	Related bill	Sep 14, 2011
S 1660	American Jobs Act of 2011	Related bill	Oct 11, 2011
S 1978	Community College Innovation Act	Related bill	Dec 12, 2011
HR 2948	Fix America's Schools Today (FAST) Act of 2011	Related bill	Nov 18, 2011

Subjects

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Sep 21, 2011Introduced in Senate

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