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[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1558 Introduced in House (IH)]

104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1558

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

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 3, 1995

 Mr. Goodling introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
          Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities

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                                 A BILL

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

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

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

    (a) Repeals.--Subsection (b) of section 241, section 316, and Part 
B of title II 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 are repealed.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 203(a) of the Goals 2000: Educate America 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.
            (2) 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''.
            (3) 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''.
            (4) Section 315(b) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 5895) is 
        amended--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (2); and
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (5) as 
                paragraphs (2) through (4), respectively.
            (5) Section 503 of such Act (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)''.
            (6) 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).
    (c) 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 part B of such title.
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