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Latest Update: Monday, October, 13th 2008
To enhance the safety of elementary schools, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education. 5/16/2007--Introduced. School Safety Enhancements Act of 2007 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) allow the placement and use of surveillance equipment in schools under the matching grant program for public elementary and secondary school security; (2) allow the use of grant funds to establish hotlines or tiplines for reporting potentially dangerous students and situations and for making capital improvements to make school facilities more secure; (3) set the federal matching share of program costs at 80%; and (4) revise application requirements for school security grants. Requires the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Secretary of Education to establish an interagency task force to develop and promulgate advisory school safety guidelines. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution [...] show full description
- 09/22/2008 - Received in the Senate.
- 09/17/2008 - Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8368-8369)
- 09/17/2008 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 09/17/2008 - On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 9/15/2008 H8083-8084)
- 09/15/2008 - Mr. Scott (VA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
show all actions- 09/22/2008 - Received in the Senate.
- 09/17/2008 - Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8368-8369)
- 09/17/2008 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 09/17/2008 - On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 9/15/2008 H8083-8084)
- 09/15/2008 - Mr. Scott (VA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 09/15/2008 - Considered under suspension of the rules.
- 09/15/2008 - DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2352.
- 09/15/2008 - At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Issa objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was withdrawn.
- 09/15/2008 - Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8083-8085)
- 09/15/2008 - Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8083-8085; text of measure as introduced: CR H8083-8084)
- 09/15/2008 - Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8083-8085; text of measure as reported in House: CR H8083-8084)
- 09/12/2008 - Committee on Education and Labor discharged.
- 09/12/2008 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 543.
- 08/01/2008 - Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-821, Part I.
- 08/01/2008 - House Committee on Education and Labor Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Sept. 12, 2008.
- 06/11/2008 - Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- 06/11/2008 - Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- 05/14/2008 - Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- 05/13/2008 - Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- 05/13/2008 - Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
- 05/06/2008 - Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- 04/17/2008 - Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- 07/17/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
- 07/17/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
- 06/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- 05/16/2007 - Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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.
- 05/16/2007 - Referred to House Judiciary
- 05/16/2007 - Referred to House Education and Labor
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