HR 563 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

School Social Workers Improving Student Success Act

Introduced Feb 6, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Gwen Moore D-WI

Fact sheet

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

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.

  1. IntroducedFeb 6, 2013
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

School Social Workers Improving Student Success Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award renewable grants to high-need local educational agencies (LEAs) to retain or hire additional school social workers.

Permits grantees to use the funds to reimburse school social workers for expenses they incur in rendering services.

Requires grant-funded social workers to target their services to the highest-need students.

Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to high-need LEAs in applying for such grants.

Prohibits the grant funds from being used to supplant other federal, state, or local funds used for hiring and retaining school social workers.

Cosponsors 10

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 6, 2013 to May 29, 2014, with 4 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalFeb 6, 2013
D-RIJames R. LangevinOriginalFeb 6, 2013
D-ILJanice D. SchakowskyOriginalFeb 6, 2013
D-AZRaúl M. GrijalvaOriginalFeb 6, 2013
D-INAndré CarsonFeb 12, 2013
D-IADavid LoebsackFeb 25, 2013
D-NCDavid E. PriceFeb 28, 2013
D-WIMark PocanMar 21, 2013
D-NHCarol Shea-PorterApr 28, 2014
D-CAAnna G. EshooMay 29, 2014

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Apr 23, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
  2. Feb 6, 2013Introduced in House
  3. Feb 6, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Feb 6, 2013Introduced in House

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