Best Buddies Empowerment for People with Intellectual Disabilities Act of 2007

To provide assistance to Best Buddies to support the expansion and development of mentoring programs, and for other purposes.

12/19/2007--Introduced.
Best Buddies Empowerment for People with Intellectual Disabilities Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to, or enter into agreements with, Best Buddies (a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with intellectual disabilities mesh with mainstream society) to promote the expansion of Best Buddies and the design and implementation of its education and outreach programs, including character education and volunteer programs, that can be integrated into classroom instruction. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to repeal authority for the Fund for the Improvement of Education:
(1) educational, cultural, apprenticeship, and exchange programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and their historical whaling and trading partners in Massachusetts; and
(2) program of grants to a national nonprofit educational organization for the improvement of student understanding of personal finance and economics through effective teaching of economics in the nation's classrooms.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Steny Hoyer [D, MD-5]
• and 1 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Roy Blunt [R, MO-7]
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Committees

• House Education and Labor
• 1 more
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

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Amendments to H.R.4898

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December 19, 2007

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• Feb 05, 2008: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
• Introduced on Dec 19, 2007.
• Dec 19, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Elementary and secondary education
• Alaska
• Animals
• Apprenticeship
• 25 more
• Citizenship education
• Cultural relations
• Disabled
• Education
• Educational exchanges
• Elementary education
• Federal aid to education
• Hawaiians
• Humanities
• Indigenous peoples
• Job training
• Mainstreaming in education
• Marine resources
• Massachusetts
• Mentally disabled
• Minorities
• Minority education
• Nonprofit organizations
• Public contracts
• Secondary education
• Service learning
• Social services
• Special education
• Volunteer workers
• Whaling

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June 10, 2008 Socialist International

"In March 2006, Priorities, Inc. lent its support to HR 4898, legislation intended "to reallocate funds toward sensible priorities such as improved children's education, increased children's access to health care, expanded job training, .

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Representatives Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee chair the Progressive Caucus, and are the original co-sponsors of the Common Sense Budget Act (HR 4898) which would increase federal investments by $60 billion every year for education, ...

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December 19, 2007 WashingtonWatch.com - H.R. 4898, The Best Buddies Empowerment for ...

US Congress: HR 4898, The Best Buddies Empowerment for People with Intellectual Disabilities Act of 2007.

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