3.0.0 1138 2023-01-11T13:36:27Z 2023-01-11T13:36:27Z Senate S 2017-05-16 115 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-05-16T21:10:32Z 2017-05-16 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2017-05-16 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT N Education Appropriations Congressional oversight Department of Education Education programs funding Government information and archives Education 00 2017-05-16 Introduced in Senate 2017-08-03T19:27:53Z Department of Education Accountability Act

This bill requires the Department of Education to consider all FY2017 grant submissions in the Upward Bound program without regard to whether formatting requirements were met. Effective seven days after enactment and every seven days thereafter, $500,000 of the unobligated balances from the Office of the Secretary of Education is rescinded until the Secretary of Education certifies compliance with this requirement.

]]> Department of Education Accountability Act Display Title Department of Education Accountability Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to rescind $500,000 a week from the Office of the Secretary of Education until the Secretary of Education reconsiders Upward Bound applications that were rejected due to arbitrary formatting issues. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Department of Education Accountability Act Introduced in Senate 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1138is/xml/BILLS-115s1138is.xml 2017-05-16 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.