HR 2394 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Local Education Authority Returns Now Act

Introduced Jun 17, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Scott Garrett R-NJ

Latest action · Jul 8, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Progress

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IntroducedJun 17, 2013
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Local Education Authority Returns Now Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make an annual determination of states that have chosen to opt-out of K-12 education grant programs.

Requires the Secretary of Education to determine credits due to states as opt-out state education amounts.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers in states that opt-out a refundable tax credit for a share of the opt-out amount creditable to such states.

Cosponsors 20

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 17, 2013 to Feb 25, 2014; 18 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-MI	Bill Huizenga	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-FL	Bill Posey	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-CA	Doug LaMalfa	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-CA	John Campbell	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-TX	Louie Gohmert	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-OK	Markwayne Mullin	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-SC	Mick Mulvaney	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-GA	Paul C. Broun	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-UT	Rob Bishop	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-NC	Robert Pittenger	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-NM	Stevan Pearce	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-OH	Steve Chabot	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-IA	Steve King	Original	Jun 17, 2013
R-FL	Steve Southerland II	Original	Jun 17, 2013

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Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Jun 17, 2013
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Jun 17, 2013
	Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee	Referred Jul 8, 2013

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jul 8, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Jun 17, 2013Introduced in House
Jun 17, 2013Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution: ``The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.''

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H3688.

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To allow a State to opt out of K-12 education grant programs and the requirements of those programs, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit to taxpayers in such a State, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Local Education Authority Returns Now Act

Subjects

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

Text 1

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Jun 17, 2013Introduced in House

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