[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2803 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2803

 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure 
     State control over academic standards, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 17, 2015

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure 
     State control over academic standards, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. STATE CONTROL OVER STANDARDS.

    Subpart 2 of part E of title IX of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new section:

``SEC. 9537. STATE CONTROL OVER STANDARDS.

    ``(a) In General.--Nothing in this Act shall be construed to 
prohibit a State from withdrawing from the Common Core State Standards 
developed under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, any other 
academic standards common to a significant number of States, or 
assessments tied to such standards.
    ``(b) Prohibition.--No officer or employee of the Federal 
Government shall, directly or indirectly, through grants, contracts or 
other cooperative agreements, through waiver granted under section 9401 
or through any other authority, take any action against a State that 
exercises its rights under subsection (a).''.

SEC. 2. CLERICAL AMENDMENT.

    The table of contents of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 9536 
the following:

``Sec. 9537. State control over standards.''.
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