3.0.0 5384 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z Senate S S 2024-11-21 118 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2024-11-21T20:37:09Z 2024-11-21 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2024-11-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress R000605 Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] Mike Rounds R SD N Education Department of Education 2024-12-16T15:55:57Z Department of Health and Human Services 2024-12-16T15:56:55Z Department of the Interior 2024-12-16T15:57:00Z Department of the Treasury 2024-12-16T15:56:15Z Education programs funding 2024-12-16T15:56:41Z Elementary and secondary education 2024-12-16T15:56:20Z Executive agency funding and structure 2024-12-16T15:56:09Z Government lending and loan guarantees 2024-12-16T15:56:34Z Higher education 2024-12-16T15:56:29Z Indian social and development programs 2024-12-16T15:57:21Z Intergovernmental relations 2024-12-16T15:56:48Z Minority education 2024-12-16T15:57:14Z Special education 2024-12-16T15:57:08Z Student aid and college costs 2024-12-16T15:56:25Z Education 2024-12-09T11:29:49Z

00 2024-11-21 Introduced in Senate 2024-12-13T15:40:51Z <p><strong>Returning Education to Our States Act</strong></p><p>This bill abolishes the Department of Education (ED) and terminates any applicable program for which it has administrative responsibility, except for those programs transferred to other federal agencies.</p><p>Specifically, the bill transfers from ED to the Department of Health and Human Services (1) all functions, programs, and authorities of ED under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; and (2) each Impact Aid program.&nbsp;</p><p>Additionally, the bill transfers each authority and program of ED's Office of Indian Education to the Department of the Interior.</p><p>The bill transfers the following programs to the Department of the Treasury:</p><ul><li>the Federal Pell Grant Program;</li><li>the Federal Family Education Loan Program;</li><li>the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program;</li><li>the Federal Perkins Loan Program;</li><li>the activities described in Part F (need analysis), Part G (general provisions relating to student assistance programs), or Part H (program integrity) of Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965;</li><li>the Health Education Assistance Loan Program; and</li><li>the programs under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 and the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002.</li></ul><p>The bill also directs Treasury to establish two block grant programs, through which Treasury must make allocations to states to (1) support elementary and secondary education, including career and technical education; and (2) support&nbsp;postsecondary education.</p><p>The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division shall be responsible for receiving complaints and enforcing federal civil rights laws that are applicable to these block grant programs and federal student aid programs.</p>

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