US Congress House Bill 913 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-1)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2009-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Mentoring America's Children Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make miscellaneous changes to the Mentoring grant program under title IV that include: (1) improvement of school connectedness and character education among mentoring's purposes; (2) corporations, universities, and other entities among program providers; (3) a requirement that mentors help children become responsible and successful adults; (4) suburban children in high crime areas and children living in high gang involvement, drug use, or dropout areas among those most in need of mentoring; (5) limitation of each mentor to no more than three children; and (6) mandatory information on grant applicants about plans for monitoring mentor/mentee matches and the satisfaction of grant matching requirements that increase from 10% to 50% over the three-year grant term. Allows grantees to be considered for new grants if: (1) their prior performance was satisfactory; (2) they propose to use the new grant exclusively for expanded service to a new area or population; and (3) they are able to provide a 50% match to the new grant funds. Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) provide training and technical assistance to grantees, and track and evaluate their performance; and (2) arrange for research on school-based mentoring, the results of which are to be provided to the mentoring community. Includes mentoring in ESEA programs for: (1) Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native education; (2) the transitioning of youth offenders into education; and (3) school violence and drug abuse prevention.

Mentoring America's Children Act of 2009

Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. Corrine Brown [D-FL]	Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]
Rep. Jerry Costello [D-IL]	Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]	Rep. Bob Filner [D-CA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]
Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Patrick Kennedy [D-RI]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]
Rep. Ed Pastor [D-AZ]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Mike J. Rogers [R-MI]	Rep. Joe Sestak [D-PA]
Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Robert Wexler [D-FL]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-03-23		Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2009-02-09		Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
2009-02-09		Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E222)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/913/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr913/BILLS-111hr913ih.pdf