[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 12 (Thursday, February 10, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H330-H331]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    RE-REFERRAL OF S. 1809 TO THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE AND TO THE 
                COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE

  Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
bill, S. 1809, the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of 
Rights Act, be re-referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in 
addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee concerned.
  Mr. Speaker, today S. 1809 was re-referred to the Committee on 
Commerce and in addition the Committee on Education and the Workforce. 
Titles I and III have been traditionally in the sole jurisdiction of 
the Committee on Commerce and Title II, Family Support, has been 
traditionally in the sole jurisdiction of the Committee on Education 
and the Workforce. Title II, Family Support, would authorize a program 
that was originally created in Section 315 of P.L. 103-382, Improving 
America's Schools Act of 1994, which created a new Part I in the 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. In 1997, Part I, Family 
Support of IDEA was repealed by Section 203(a), Repealers, of P.L. 105-
17, the Individuals with

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Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997, see H.R. 5, the 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania?
  There was no objection.

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