To amend the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to eliminate the National Education Standards and Improvement Council, and for other purposes.

Summary: Amends the Goals 2000:  Educate America Act to eliminate the National Education Standards and Improvement Council (the Council). 
Terminates funding for the Council. 
Makes technical and conforming amendments to such Act, the National Skill Standards Act of 1994, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and the General Education Provisions Act.

SECTION 1. ELIMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION STANDARDS AND 
              IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL.

    (a) Repeals.--Subsection (b) of section 241, sections 211 through 
218 of Part B of title II, and section 316 of the Goals 2000: Educate 
America Act (20 U.S.C. 5841 et seq.) are repealed.
    (b) Amendments to Goals 2000: Educate America Act.--
            (1) Section 201(3) of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act 
        (20 U.S.C. 5812(3)) is amended by striking all that follows 
        after ``opportunity-to-learn standards'' and inserting a 
        period.
            (2) Section 203(a) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 5823(a)) is 
        amended by striking paragraphs (3) and (4) and by redesignating 
        paragraphs (5) and (6) as paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively.
            (3) Section 204(a)(2) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 5824) is 
        amended by striking ``described in section 213(f)''.
            (4) Section 219 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 5849) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a)(1) by striking ``consistent 
                with the provisions of section 213(c),''; and
                    (B) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the 
                following:
    ``(b) Applications.--Each consortium that desires to receive a 
grant under this subsection shall submit an application to the 
Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such information 
and assurances as the Secretary may require.''.
            (5) Section 220(a) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 5850(a)) is 
        amended by striking ``to be used'' and all that follows through 
        ``by the Council''.
            (6) Section 221(a) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 5851(a)) is 
        amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) subparagraph (A), by striking ``and the 
                        Council''; and
                            (ii) striking subparagraph (B) and (C) and 
                        redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph 
                        (B); and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and the 
                Council, as appropriate,''.
            (7) Section 308(b)(2)(A) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 
        5888(b)(2)(A)) is amended by striking ``including--'' and all 
        that follows through the end of clause (ii) and inserting 
        ``including through consortia of States''.
            (8) Section 314(a)(6) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 5894(a)(6)) is 
        amended by striking ``, if--'' and all that follows through 
        ``(B)'' and inserting ``if''.
            (9) Section 315 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 5895) is amended in 
        subsection (b)--
                    (A) paragraph (1)(A), by striking ``paragraph (4) 
                of this subsection'' and inserting ``paragraph (3)'';
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2);
                    (C) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (5) as 
                paragraphs (2) through (4), respectively;
                    (D) in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3) (as 
                redesignated), by striking ``paragraph (5),'' and 
                inserting ``paragraph (4),''; and
                    (E) in paragraph (4) (as redesignated), by striking 
                ``paragraph (4)'' each place it appears and inserting 
                ``paragraph (3)''.
    (c) National Skill Standards Act of 1994.--
            (1) Section 503 of the National Skill Standards Act of 1994 
        (20 U.S.C. 5933) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (b)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1)--
                                    (I) in the matter preceding 
                                subparagraph (A), by striking ``28'' 
                                and inserting ``27'';
                                    (II) by striking subparagraph (D); 
                                and
                                    (III) by redesignating 
                                subparagraphs (E) through (G) as 
                                subparagraphs (D) through (F), 
                                respectively;
                            (ii) in paragraphs (2), (3), and (5), by 
                        striking ``subparagraphs (E), (F), and (G)'' 
                        each place it appears and inserting 
                        ``subparagraphs (D), (E), and (F)'';
                            (iii) in paragraph (2), by striking 
                        ``subparagraph (G)'' and inserting 
                        ``subparagraph (F)'';
                            (iv) in paragraph (4), by striking ``(C), 
                        and (D)'' and inserting ``and (C)''; and
                            (v) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
                        (A) of paragraph (5), by striking 
                        ``subparagraph (E), (F), or (G)'' and inserting 
                        ``subparagraph (D), (E), or (F)''; and
                    (B) in subsection (c)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking 
                        ``subparagraph (E)'' and inserting 
                        ``subparagraph (D)''; and
                            (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking 
                        ``subparagraphs (E), (F), and (G)'' and 
                        inserting ``subparagraphs (D), (E), and (F)''.
            (2) Section 504 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 5934) is amended--
                    (A) by striking subsection (f); and
                    (B) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection 
                (f).
    (d) Amendment to Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.--
Section 14701(b)(1)(B)(v) of such the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8941(b)(1)(B)(v)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``and'' before ``the National Education 
        Goals Panel''; and
            (2) by striking ``, and the National Education Statistics 
        and Improvement Council''.
    (d) Amendment to General Education Provisions Act.--Section 428 of 
the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1228b), as amended by 
section 237 of the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 (Public Law 
103-382), is amended by striking ``the National Education Standards and 
Improvement Council,''.

SEC. 2. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

    The table of contents for the Goals 2000: Educate America Act is 
amended, in the items relating to title II, by striking the items 
relating to sections 211 through 218 of part B of such title and the 
item relating to section 316.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 15, 1995.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.