HR 209 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

To authorize the appropriation of funds to be used to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children.

Introduced Jan 4, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Jose E. Serrano D-NY

Latest action · Apr 23, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Progress

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IntroducedJan 4, 2013
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Directs the Secretary of Education to allot funds to states for distribution to local educational agencies (LEAs) to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children.

Requires that 80% of a state's allotment be allocated to LEAs on the basis of each LEA's proportion of low-income schoolchildren in the state, and that the remainder be allocated on the basis of each LEA's proportion of the overall population of schoolchildren in the state.

Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

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 Jan 4, 2013
	Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee	Referred Apr 23, 2013

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 23, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Jan 4, 2013Introduced in House
Jan 4, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

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: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, which gives Congress the power ``To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes,'' Article I Section 8, Clause 1, which give Congress the power to ``lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposets and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States,'' and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, which gives Congress the power ``To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers.''

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H55.

Titles 1

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

Official Title as Introduced: To authorize the appropriation of funds to be used to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children.

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 4, 2013Introduced in House

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