[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3339 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3339

To prohibit the use of funds by the Department of Education relating to 
                 multistate academic content standards.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 24, 2013

 Mr. Kingston introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the use of funds by the Department of Education relating to 
                 multistate academic content standards.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``One Size Does Not Fit All in 
Education Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.

    (a) In General.--No funds appropriated or otherwise available to 
the Department of Education may be used to--
            (1) develop, implement, or evaluate any set of multistate 
        academic content standards or any assessments aligned with such 
        standards; or
            (2) award any grant, contract, or cooperative agreement 
        that requires or authorizes the development, implementation, or 
        evaluation of multistate academic content standards or 
        assessments aligned with such standards.
    (b) Applications.--The Secretary of Education may not require a 
State to adopt multistate academic content standards or assessments 
aligned with such standards as an eligibility requirement in an 
application for Federal funds.
    (c) Waiver.--Section 9401 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act (20 U.S.C. 7861) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(h) Multistate Standards.--The Secretary may not require a State 
to adopt multistate academic content standards or assessments aligned 
with such standards as a condition for receiving a waiver under this 
section.''.
    (d) Multistate Academic Content Standard Defined.--In this Act, the 
term ``multistate academic content standard''--
            (1) means an academic content standard adopted by more than 
        one State; and
            (2) includes the Common Core State Standards developed by 
        the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices 
        and the Council of Chief State School Officers.
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