To prohibit spending Federal education funds on national testing without explicit and specific legislation.
Amends the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit the use of funds provided to the Department of Education, or to an applicable program under any Act, to develop, plan, implement, or administer any federally sponsored national test in reading, mathematics, or any other subject that is not specifically and explicitly provided for in authorizing legislation enacted into Federal law. Excepts from such prohibition specified requirements of the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 105-78) relating to voluntary national tests and assessments.
Exempts from such funding prohibitions the Third International Mathematics and Science Study or other international comparative assessments developed under the National Education Statistics Act of 1994 and administered to only a representative sample of pupils in the United States and in foreign nations.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 16.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 105-409.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 105-409.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 236.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 348 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2846. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions.
Rule H. Res. 348 passed House.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 348. (consideration: CR H345-355)
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2846. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Thomas W. Ewing to act as Chairman of the Committee.
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 348 and Rule XXIII.
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GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2846.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 242 - 174 (Roll no. 9).
Roll Call #9 (House)On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 242 - 174 (Roll no. 9).
Roll Call #9 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 2846.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.