S. 1642 - A Bill to Extend the Authorization of Programs Under the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for Other Purposes.

A Bill to Extend the Authorization of Programs Under the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for Other Purposes.

S. 1642 — 110^th Congress (2007–2008)

Summary

Higher Education Amendments of 2007 amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise HEA programs and to extend the authorization of appropriations for them through FY2013. (by CRS)

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Title

A bill to extend the authorization of programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

Other Titles

• Higher Education Amendments of 2007
• Navajo Nation Higher Education Act of 2006
• Higher Education Amendments of 2007
• Early Childhood Education Professional Development and Career Task Force Act
• Navajo Nation Higher Education Act of 2006
• Higher Education Amendments of 2007
• Early Childhood Education Professional Development and Career Task Force Act
• John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007
• Navajo Nation Higher Education Act of 2006

Sponsor

Edward Kennedy

Co-Sponsors

• Jeff Bingaman
• Barbara Mikulski
• Christopher Dodd
• Michael Enzi
• John Reed
• Sherrod Brown
• Hillary Clinton
• Patty Murray
• Barack Obama
• Bernard Sanders

Subjects

• Higher education
• Academic freedom
• Academic performance
• Accreditation (Education)
• Actions and defenses
• Administrative procedure
• Agricultural labor
• Agriculture
• Alaska
• Alcohol and youth
• Alcoholism
• Americans in foreign countries
• Animals
• Apprenticeship
• Archives
• Area studies
• Arizona
• Armed forces
• Attorneys general
• Auctions
• Authorization
• Biology
• Black colleges
• Bonds
• Budgets
• Building construction
• Business
• Business education
• Charities
• Chemistry
• Child abuse
• Children
• Civil liberties
• Civil rights
• Collection of accounts
• College administration
• College costs
• College teachers
• Colleges
• Communications
• Community and school
• Community colleges
• Compensatory education
• Conflict of interests
• Congress
• Congressional investigations
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Consumer credit
• Consumer education
• Consumers
• Continuing education
• Copyright
• Counseling
• Criminal justice
• Criminal statistics
• Curricula
• Data banks
• Deaf
• Debtor and creditor
• Defense policy
• Department of Education
• Developing countries
• Disabled
• Discrimination in education
• Distance education
• District of Columbia
• Dropouts
• Drug abuse
• Drugs and youth
• Economic policy
• Education
• Education of the disadvantaged
• Education savings accounts
• Educational accountability
• Educational counseling
• Educational facilities
• Educational innovations
• Educational research
• Educational statistics
• Educational technology
• Educational tests
• Electronic government information
• Elementary and secondary education
• Elementary education
• Emergency communication systems
• Emergency management
• Employment
• Engineering
• English language
• Ethics
• Evacuation of civilians
• Executive departments
• Families
• Federal advisory bodies
• Federal aid to education
• Federal employees
• Federally-guaranteed loans
• Fees
• Finance
• Financial services
• Fire prevention
• Foreign policy
• Foreign service
• Foreign students
• Freedom of association
• Freedom of speech
• Gifts
• Government employees
• Government information
• Government internships
• Government lending
• Government paperwork
• Government procurement
• Government publicity
• Graduate education
• Hawaii
• Hawaiians
• Health policy
• Hispanic Americans
• History
• Home schooling
• Homeless
• Housing
• Humanities
• Income tax
• Indexing (Economic policy)
• Indian education
• Indians
• Indigenous peoples
• Intellectual property
• Interest
• Interest rates
• International affairs
• International education
• Internet
• Job hunting
• Job training
• Juvenile delinquency
• Labor
• Labor statistics
• Land transfers
• Language and languages
• Law
• Legal aid
• Legal education
• Libraries
• Limitation of actions
• Literacy programs
• Loan defaults
• Lobbying
• Mathematics
• Medical care
• Medical education
• Medical residents
• Medicine
• Mental health services
• Mentally disabled
• Mentoring
• Migrant education
• Migrant labor
• Military dependents
• Military housing
• Military personnel
• Minorities
• Minorities in government
• Minority education
• Murder
• New York State
• Nonprofit organizations
• Nurses
• Nursing education
• Olympic games
• Pacific Islanders
• Parent-school relationships
• Parents
• Personal budgets
• Physics
• Poverty
• Preschool education
• Prisoners
• Professional education
• Public broadcasting
• Public contracts
• Public defenders
• Public health
• Public prosecutors
• Recruiting of employees
• Rehabilitation of criminals
• Research centers
• Right of privacy
• Rural affairs
• Rural education
• Salaries
• Scholarships
• School buildings
• School districts
• School health programs
• School libraries
• School personnel
• School security
• Science policy
• Scientific education
• Seasonal labor
• Secondary education
• Service learning
• Sex crimes
• Sex offenders
• Single-parent families
• Social services
• Special education
• Speech disorders
• Sports
• Standards
• State and local government
• State courts
• Student aid
• Student employment
• Student enrollment
• Student loan funds
• Student records
• Students' rights
• Surveys
• Tax returns
• Taxation
• Teacher education
• Teacher supply and demand
• Teachers
• Technical education
• Technological innovations
• Technology
• Telecommunication
• Television
• Textbooks
• Trusts and trustees
• Urban affairs
• Urban education
• Veterans
• Veterans' education
• Veterinary medicine
• Vocational education
• Volunteer workers
• Web sites
• Welfare
• Wireless communication
• Women
• Women's education

Related Bills

• H.R. 4137 (110^th) : Higher Education Opportunity Act

Major Actions

Introduced	6/18/2007
Referred to Committee
Amendments (19 proposed)
Passed Senate	7/24/2007

Bill History

• All Votes
• All Actions
• Amendments

	Chamber/Committee	Motion	Date	Result
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2366 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.	7/23/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2367 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.	7/23/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2368 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.	7/23/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2371 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.	7/23/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2372 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.	7/23/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2373 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.	7/23/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2374 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.	7/23/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2375 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.	7/23/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2377 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.	7/23/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2380 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.	7/23/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2382 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.	7/23/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Brown Amdt. No. 2376	7/23/2007	This amendment DID NOT PASS the Senate 37 voted YES 54 voted NO 9 voted present/not voting
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 2369 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.	7/24/2007	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Kennedy Amdt. No. 2381, as Modified	7/24/2007	This amendment PASSED the Senate 93 voted YES 0 voted NO 7 voted present/not voting
currently selected	Senate	On Passage - Senate - S. 1642, as Amended	7/24/2007	This bill PASSED the Senate 95 voted YES 0 voted NO 5 voted present/not voting

	Action	Date	Description
	Introduced	6/18/2007
		6/18/2007	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
	Put on a legislative calendar	6/20/2007	Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
		7/10/2007	Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Kennedy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
	Put on a legislative calendar	7/10/2007	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 264.
		7/23/2007	Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2328 proposed by Senator Reid.
		7/23/2007	Proposed amendment SA 2328 withdrawn in Senate.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2366 proposed by Senator Dorgan.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2366 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2367 proposed by Senator DeMint.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2367 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2368 proposed by Senator Kennedy for Senator Boxer.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2368 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2369 proposed by Senator Coburn.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2371 proposed by Senator Warner.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2371 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2372 proposed by Senator Akaka.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2372 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2373 proposed by Senator Enzi for Senator Burr.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2373 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2374 proposed by Senator Sessions.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2374 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2375 proposed by Senator Enzi for Senator Burr.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2375 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2376 proposed by Senator Brown.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2377 proposed by Senator Durbin.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2377 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2380 proposed by Senator Harkin to Amendment SA 2377.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2380 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2381 proposed by Senator Kennedy to Amendment SA 2369.
		7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2382 proposed by Senator Kennedy.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Amendment SA 2382 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
select this vote	Vote	7/23/2007	Brown Amdt. No. 2376
		7/24/2007	Considered by Senate.
		7/24/2007	The committee substitute as amended agreed to by Voice Vote.
		7/24/2007	Considered by Senate.
select this vote	Vote	7/24/2007	Amendment SA 2369 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
		7/24/2007	Considered by Senate.
select this vote	Vote	7/24/2007	Kennedy Amdt. No. 2381, as Modified
currently selected	Senate Vote on Passage	7/24/2007	On Passage - Senate - S. 1642, as Amended
		7/26/2007	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
		7/26/2007	Received in the House.
		7/26/2007	Held at the desk.
		11/15/2007	By Senator Kennedy from Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions filed written report. Report No. 110-231.

	Number	Sponsor	Date Offered	Status
	S. Amdt. 2328	Reid, Harry [D-NV]	July 18, 2007	Withdrawn on July 22, 2007.
	To provide for campus-based digital theft prevention. Show amendment details
	S. Amdt. 2336	Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]	July 19, 2007	Offered on July 18, 2007.
	Amendment information not available. Show amendment details
	S. Amdt. 2365	Bayh, Evan [D-IN]	July 23, 2007	Offered on July 22, 2007.
	Amendment information not available. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2366	Dorgan, Byron [D-ND]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 22, 2007.
	To provide for the development of a student loan clearinghouse. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2367	DeMint, Jim [R-SC]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 22, 2007.
	To have the Government Accountability Office conduct a study regarding the employment of postsecondary education graduates. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2368	Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 22, 2007.
	To amend provisions relating to the upward bound program under section 402C of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2369	Coburn, Thomas [R-OK]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 23, 2007.
	To certify that taxpayers' dollars and students' tuition support educational rather than lobbying activities. Show amendment details
	S. Amdt. 2370	Sessions, Jefferson [R-AL]	July 23, 2007	Offered on July 22, 2007.
	Amendment information not available. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2371	Warner, John [R-VA]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 22, 2007.
	To establish a digital and wireless network technology program, and for other purposes. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2372	Akaka, Daniel [D-HI]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 22, 2007.
	To include Native Hawaiians as groups underrepresented in graduate education for purposes of the Ronald E. McNair postbaccalaureate achievement program. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2373	Burr, Richard [R-NC]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 22, 2007.
	To amend provisions relating to the study group regarding simplifying the process of applying for Federal financial aid. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2374	Sessions, Jefferson [R-AL]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 22, 2007.
	To amend the provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 regarding graduate medical schools located outside of the United States. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2375	Burr, Richard [R-NC]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 22, 2007.
	To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to teacher development. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2376	Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]	July 23, 2007	Failed by roll call vote on July 22, 2007.
	To provide for a Federal supplemental loan program. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2377	Durbin, Richard [D-IL]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 22, 2007.
	To provide loan repayment for prosecutors and public defenders. Show amendment details
	S. Amdt. 2378	Coleman, Norm [R-MN]	July 23, 2007	Offered on July 22, 2007.
	Amendment information not available. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2380	Harkin, Thomas [D-IA]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 22, 2007.
	To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 in order to provide funding for the student loan repayment for civil legal assistance attorneys. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2381	Kennedy, Edward [D-MA]	July 23, 2007	Passed by roll call vote on July 23, 2007.
	To provide for a demonstration and certification regarding the use of certain Federal funds. Show amendment details
select this vote	S. Amdt. 2382	Kennedy, Edward [D-MA]	July 23, 2007	Passed by voice vote on July 22, 2007.
	Of a perfecting nature. Show amendment details