Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act of 2011
Latest action · Oct 20, 2011 Cloture on the motion to proceed to the bill not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 50. Record Vote Number: 177. (consideration: CR S6840; text: CR S6840)
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.
- IntroducedOct 17, 2011
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Education to allocate grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for the costs of retaining, recalling, rehiring, or hiring employees to provide early childhood, elementary, or secondary education and related services.
Allows states to reserve up to 10% of their grant for awards, for the same purposes, to state-funded early learning programs.
Requires LEAs and state-funded early learning programs to obligate such funds by the close of FY2013.
Prohibits the use of such grants to supplant state funding for education.
Directs the Attorney General to carry out a competitive grant program pursuant to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 for the hiring, rehiring, or retention of career law enforcement officers.
Makes appropriations to the Community Oriented Policing Stabilization Fund to carry out such program and for transfer to a First Responder Stabilization Fund from which the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) shall make competitive grants for hiring additional firefighters pursuant to the Federal Fire Prevention Control Act of 1974.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose on individual taxpayers in taxable years beginning after 2012 an additional tax equal to 0.5% of so much of their modified adjusted gross income as exceeds $1 million. Defines "modified adjusted gross income" as adjusted gross income reduced by any deduction allowed for investment interest. Provides for an inflation adjustment to the $1 million threshold amount for taxable years beginning after 2013.
Recorded votes 1
Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.
| Roll call | Question | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate 177 | On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed S. 1723 | Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected50–50 | Oct 20, 2011 |
Cosponsors 12
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 17, 2011 to Sep 10, 2012; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Original | Oct 17, 2011 |
| D-NV | Harry Reid | Original | Oct 17, 2011 |
| D-PA | Robert P. Casey Jr. | Original | Oct 17, 2011 |
| D-IA | Tom Harkin | Original | Oct 17, 2011 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Oct 18, 2011 | |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Oct 18, 2011 | |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Oct 18, 2011 | |
| D-DE | Christopher A. Coons | Oct 19, 2011 | |
| D-OR | Jeff Merkley | Oct 19, 2011 | |
| D-MD | Benjamin L. Cardin | Oct 20, 2011 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Oct 20, 2011 | |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Sep 10, 2012 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 20, 2011Cloture on the motion to proceed to the bill not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 50. Record Vote Number: 177. (consideration: CR S6840; text: CR S6840)
- Oct 19, 2011Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S6753)
- Oct 19, 2011Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S6753; text: CR S6753)
- Oct 19, 2011Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S6753)
- Oct 18, 2011Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6625-6626)
- Oct 18, 2011Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 204.
- Oct 17, 2011Introduced in Senate
- Oct 17, 2011Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
In the Congressional Record 4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S6815–S6817, S6830–S6832, S6839Amendments S6830, S6832Cloture motions S6840Recorded votes S6840cloture motion on motion to proceed | Amy Klobuchar D-MN, Barbara A. Mikulski D-MD (cloture motion), Bernard Sanders I-VT (cloture motion), Daniel K. Inouye D-HI (cloture motion), Debbie Stabenow D-MI (cloture motion), Dianne Feinstein D-CA, Harry Reid D-NV (cloture motion), Herb Kohl D-WI (cloture motion), Jack Reed D-RI (cloture motion), Jeff Bingaman D-NM (cloture motion), Jeff Merkley D-OR (cloture motion), Joe Manchin III D-WV (amendment), Jon Tester D-MT (amendment), Patrick J. Leahy D-VT (cloture motion), Patty Murray D-WA (cloture motion), Richard Blumenthal D-CT (cloture motion), Richard J. Durbin D-IL (cloture motion), Robert Menendez D-NJ (cloture motion), Robert P. Casey Jr. D-PA (cloture motion), Sheldon Whitehouse D-RI (cloture motion), Sherrod Brown D-OH (cloture motion), Tom Harkin D-IA (cloture motion) | Oct 20, 2011 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S6701, S6702, S6753Motions S6753Cloture motions S6753 | Barbara A. Mikulski D-MD (cloture motion), Bernard Sanders I-VT (cloture motion), Daniel K. Inouye D-HI (cloture motion), Debbie Stabenow D-MI (cloture motion), Harry Reid D-NV (cloture motion, motion), Herb Kohl D-WI (cloture motion), Jack Reed D-RI (cloture motion), Jeff Bingaman D-NM (cloture motion), Jeff Merkley D-OR (cloture motion), Mitch McConnell R-KY, Patrick J. Leahy D-VT (cloture motion), Patty Murray D-WA (cloture motion), Richard Blumenthal D-CT (cloture motion), Richard J. Durbin D-IL (cloture motion), Robert Menendez D-NJ (cloture motion), Robert P. Casey Jr. D-PA (cloture motion), Sheldon Whitehouse D-RI (cloture motion), Sherrod Brown D-OH (cloture motion), Tom Harkin D-IA (cloture motion) | Oct 19, 2011 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S6623–S6628, S6642 | Harry Reid D-NV, Richard Blumenthal D-CT, Richard J. Durbin D-IL, Robert Menendez D-NJ | Oct 18, 2011 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S6621 | Harry Reid D-NV | Oct 17, 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.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Oct 31, 2011S. 1723, Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act of 2011Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on October 17, 2011
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1660 | American Jobs Act of 2011 | Related bill | Oct 11, 2011 |
| HR 6561 | Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act of 2012 | Related bill | Oct 10, 2012 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to provide for teacher and first responder stabilization.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act of 2011
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Education programs funding
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee hiring
- Fires
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Income tax rates
- Inflation and prices
- Law enforcement administration and funding
- Law enforcement officers
- Preschool education
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
- U.S. territories and protectorates
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 18, 2011Placed on Calendar Senate
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.
