US Congress Senate Bill 866 (Prior Session Legislation)

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April 22 2009 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4581-4584)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

No Child Left Inside Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states, as a prerequisite to receiving implementation grants, to develop environmental literacy plans, approved by the Secretary of Education, for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 that include environmental education standards and teacher training. Directs the Secretary to award Environmental Education Professional Development Grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to partnerships that include an LEA and, permissibly, institutions of higher education (IHE), other educational entities, or federal, state, regional, or local natural resource or environmental agencies, for activities involving, among other things, teacher training and the development of more rigorous environmental education curricula that advance the teaching of interdisciplinary courses. Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive matching grants to partnerships that include an LEA and, permissibly, IHEs, other educational entities, federal, state, regional, or local natural resource or environmental agencies, or park and recreation departments, for activities to improve and support environmental education that include: (1) advancing content and achievement standards; (2) developing or disseminating innovations or model programs; and (3) research.

No Child Left Inside Act of 2009

Sen Casey, Robert P., Jr.	Sen Snowe, Olympia J.	Sen Cardin, Benjamin L.	Sen Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon	Sen Collins, Susan M.	Sen Reed, Jack	Sen Bennet, Michael F.
Sen Kaufman, Edward E.	Sen Lincoln, Blanche L.	Sen Sanders, Bernard	Sen Durbin, Richard
Sen Kerry, John F.	Sen Lautenberg, Frank R.	Sen Menendez, Robert	Sen Stabenow, Debbie
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A.	Sen Dodd, Christopher J.	Sen Murray, Patty	Sen Burris, Roland

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-04-22		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4581-4584)
2009-04-22		Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4581)

HB2054 (Related) 2009-06-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:SN00866:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111s866is/pdf/BILLS-111s866is.pdf