Student Testing Improvement and Accountability Act
Latest action · Apr 29, 2015 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.
- IntroducedJan 21, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Student Testing Improvement and Accountability Act
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to eliminate the requirement that students be tested against state academic content and achievement standards in mathematics and reading or language arts in each of grades three through eight.
Requires, instead, that those tests be administered at least once during: (1) grades 3 through 5, (2) grades 6 through 9, and
(3) grades 10 through 12.
Cosponsors 42
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 21, 2015 to Jan 6, 2016; 16 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NJ | Albio Sires | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| R-CA | David G. Valadao | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| R-OH | David P. Joyce | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| R-MI | Fred Upton | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| R-PA | Glenn Thompson | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| R-NY | John Katko | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| I-AZ | Kyrsten Sinema | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| D-CA | Mark Takano | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| D-PA | Matt Cartwright | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| R-ID | Michael K. Simpson | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| R-PA | Patrick Meehan | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| D-MN | Richard M. Nolan | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| R-NY | Tom Reed | Original | Jan 21, 2015 |
| R-WV | David B. McKinley | Jan 22, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Eric Swalwell | Jan 22, 2015 | |
| D-CT | Joe Courtney | Jan 22, 2015 | |
| R-NY | Lee M. Zeldin | Jan 26, 2015 | |
| R-IL | Aaron Schock | Feb 3, 2015 | |
| R-MO | Sam Graves | Feb 3, 2015 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Feb 3, 2015 | |
| R-IL | Rodney Davis | Feb 11, 2015 | |
| R-NJ | Leonard Lance | Feb 13, 2015 | |
| D-NE | Brad Ashford | Feb 24, 2015 | |
| R-NY | Chris Collins | Feb 24, 2015 | |
| R-AK | Don Young | Feb 24, 2015 | |
| R-IL | Mike Bost | Feb 25, 2015 | |
| R-NV | Mark E. Amodei | Mar 13, 2015 | |
| R-AR | Eric A. "Rick" Crawford | Mar 17, 2015 | |
| R-IL | Robert J. Dold | Apr 15, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | May 5, 2015 | |
| R-AZ | Matt Salmon | Jul 9, 2015 | |
| D-FL | Alan Grayson | Oct 26, 2015 | |
| D-FL | Theodore E. Deutch | Oct 26, 2015 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Oct 27, 2015 | |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | Oct 28, 2015 | |
| D-AZ | Ann Kirkpatrick | Nov 2, 2015 | |
| R-CA | Jeff Denham | Nov 16, 2015 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Nov 19, 2015 | |
| R-NJ | Frank A. LoBiondo | Jan 6, 2016 |
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 21, 2015 |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Apr 29, 2015 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 29, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
- Jan 21, 2015Introduced in House
- Jan 21, 2015Referred 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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 10, January 21, 2015, page H481.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1025 | Student Testing Improvement and Accountability Act | Related bill | Apr 21, 2015 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to clarify when certain academic assessments shall be administered.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Student Testing Improvement and Accountability Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 21, 2015Introduced in House
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.
