HR 1008 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act

Introduced Mar 6, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Steny H. Hoyer D-MD

Latest action · Apr 23, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Progress

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IntroducedMar 6, 2013
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act - Reauthorizes the Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004 for FY2014-FY2018.

Directs the Secretary of State to act through the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in awarding grants or entering agreements with Special Olympics for activities outside the United States. Includes community-based prevention among the activities for which the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) may award grants or enter into agreements with Special Olympics. Requires grant or agreement applications to include a description of specific measurable annual benchmarks, as well as long-term goals and objectives, to be achieved through specified activities, which must include: (1) activities to increase the full participation of people with intellectual disabilities in inclusive school and community activities with people without disabilities, (2) education programs that dispel negative stereotypes about people with intellectual disabilities, and (3) activities to increase the participation of people with intellectual disabilities in Special Olympics outside of the United States and to promote volunteerism on behalf of such activities. Requires annual reports by Special Olympics to describe demographic data about Special Olympics participants.

Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements to promote the expansion of Best Buddies, including activities to increase the participation of people with intellectual disabilities in social relationships and other aspects of community life, including education and employment, within the United States.

Cosponsors 104

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 6, 2013 to Dec 1, 2014; 43 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-IN	André Carson	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen	Original	Mar 6, 2013
R-FL	Daniel Webster	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-IL	Danny K. Davis	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-IA	David Loebsack	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Mar 6, 2013
R-AK	Don Young	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-MA	Edward J. Markey	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-CA	Jackie Speier	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-RI	James R. Langevin	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-CA	Janice Hahn	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-CT	John B. Larson	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-DE	John C. Carney, Jr.	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-CA	Julia Brownley	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-WI	Mark Pocan	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle	Original	Mar 6, 2013
R-NY	Peter T. King	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-NY	Steve Israel	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-MA	William R. Keating	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke	Original	Mar 6, 2013
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Mar 7, 2013
D-NY	Daniel B. Maffei		Mar 7, 2013
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Mar 7, 2013
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Mar 7, 2013
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Mar 7, 2013
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Mar 7, 2013
D-VA	James P. Moran		Mar 7, 2013
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Mar 7, 2013
D-UT	Jim Matheson		Mar 7, 2013
D-CA	John Garamendi		Mar 7, 2013
R-NE	Lee Terry		Mar 7, 2013
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Mar 7, 2013
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Mar 7, 2013
D-WI	Ron Kind		Mar 7, 2013
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Mar 13, 2013
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Mar 13, 2013
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		Mar 13, 2013
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Mar 13, 2013
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Mar 21, 2013
D-NC	David E. Price		Mar 21, 2013
D-MD	John K. Delaney		Mar 21, 2013
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Mar 21, 2013
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam		Mar 21, 2013
R-IL	Aaron Schock		Apr 10, 2013
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Apr 10, 2013
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		Apr 10, 2013
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Apr 10, 2013
D-CA	Sam Farr		Apr 10, 2013
D-NV	Steven Horsford		Apr 10, 2013
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		Apr 11, 2013
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Apr 11, 2013
D-MN	Betty McCollum		May 6, 2013
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		May 6, 2013
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		May 15, 2013
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		May 15, 2013
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		May 15, 2013
D-TX	Gene Green		May 15, 2013
D-CO	Jared Polis		May 15, 2013
D-CT	Joe Courtney		May 15, 2013
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		May 15, 2013
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		May 15, 2013
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		May 15, 2013
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		May 21, 2013
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		May 21, 2013
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Jun 25, 2013
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jul 17, 2013
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Sep 9, 2013
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Oct 22, 2013
D-TX	Al Green		Dec 19, 2013
R-WA	David G. Reichert		Jan 8, 2014
R-NC	Howard Coble		Mar 12, 2014
R-NY	Michael G. Grimm		Mar 12, 2014
R-LA	Vance M. McAllister		Mar 13, 2014
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Mar 26, 2014
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Mar 26, 2014
R-TX	John R. Carter		Apr 3, 2014
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Apr 3, 2014
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Apr 8, 2014
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		May 8, 2014
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		May 8, 2014
D-WA	Denny Heck		Dec 1, 2014

Committees 3

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 Mar 6, 2013
	Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee	Referred Apr 23, 2013
	Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee	Referred Apr 23, 2013
House	Foreign Affairs Committee	Referred Mar 6, 2013
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Mar 6, 2013
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Mar 8, 2013

Actions 5

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 23, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Apr 23, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Mar 8, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 6, 2013Introduced in House
Mar 6, 2013Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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 the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act pursuant to Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H1321.

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 475	Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act	Identical bill	Mar 6, 2013

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To reauthorize the Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004, to provide assistance to Best Buddies to support the expansion and development of mentoring programs, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 6, 2013Introduced in House

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