LIBRARIES

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of Education: provide grants to cover costs of opposing challenges to use of specific instructional materials, or availability of specific school library materials, in public elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 7691), H2327 [25FE]

Dept. of Justice: establish grant program to establish prison libraries to reduce recidivism and increase educational opportunities for incarcerated persons (see H.R. 7247), H1914 [27JA]

Dept. of the Interior: establish America’s Living Library Project (see S. 4023), S881 [5MR] (see H.R. 7832), H2470 [5MR]

Passports: authorize certain public libraries to collect and retain fee for execution of passport application (see S. 3733), S377 [29JA] (see H.R. 6997), H615 [9JA]

Remarks in House

Long Beach, CA: Long Beach Public Library SEED program funding, H911 [15JA]