[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1215 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1215

   To prohibit spending Federal education funds on national testing.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 24, 1997

 Mr. Ashcroft introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit spending Federal education funds on national testing.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON NATIONAL TESTING.

    Part C of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1231 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 447. PROHIBITION ON NATIONAL TESTING.

    ``(a) General Prohibition.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
Federal law, funds provided to the Department or for an applicable 
program may not be used to develop, plan, implement, or administer any 
national testing program.
    ``(b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to the following:
            ``(1) The National Assessment of Educational Progress 
        carried out under section 411 of the National Education 
        Statistics Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 9010).
            ``(2) The Third International Mathematics and Science Study 
        (TIMSS).''.
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