I
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1151
To provide for elementary and secondary school library media resources,
technology enhancement, training and improvement.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 25, 1993
Mr. REED (for himself, Mrs. MINK, and Mr. PETRI) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor
JANUARY 5, 1994
Additional sponsors: Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. BYRNE,
Mr. TOWNS, Mr. SCOTT, Mr. GUNDERSON, Mr. PAYNE of New Jersey,
Mrs. UNSOELD, Mr. ROMERO-BARCELO´, Mr. OWENS, Mr. KOPETSKI, Mr.
EVANS, Mr. NADLER, Mrs. MORELLA, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr.
CLAY, Mr. HILLIARD, Mr. FISH, Mr. MAZZOLI, Mr. VENTO, Mr. ENG-
LISH of Oklahoma, Mr. GEJDENSON, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mr.
TRAFICANT, Mr. TORRICELLI, Mr. WILSON, Mr. CHAPMAN, Mr. WALSH,
Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. STUPAK, Mr. AN-
DREWS of Maine, Ms. NORTON, Mr. DARDEN, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. JOHN-
SON of Georgia, Mr. BAESLER, Mr. SARPALIUS, Mr. ANDREWS of New
Jersey, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. BARLOW, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota,
Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. BILBRAY, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. OLVER, Mr. ROSE, Ms.
SHEPHERD, Mr. SAWYER, Mr. BACHUS of Alabama, Mr. BECERRA, and
Mr. Waxman
Deleted sponsor: Mr. MFUME (added April 21, 1993; deleted November 22,
1993)
A BILL
To provide for elementary and secondary school library media
resources, technology enhancement, training and im-
provement.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Elementary and Sec-
ondary School Library Media Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—
(1) in order to prepare our Nation’s children
for the challenges of the future, as well as keeping
our Nation competitive in a global economy, every
elementary and secondary school in the United
States should be equipped with the best and most
up-to-date library resources, certified library media
specialists, access to advanced technology, and in-
struction on the use of library and information re-
sources;
(2) our Nation’s elementary and secondary
school libraries are primarily dependent on a core of
deteriorating and out-of-date library materials pur-
chased with original funding from the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965;
(3) school library media center expenditures,
when adjusted for inflation, have declined 16 percent
in public schools since 1979; and
‘‘SEC. 405A. DIVISION OF LIBRARY MEDIA SERVICES.
‘‘(a) FUNCTIONS.—The Division of Elementary and
Secondary School Library Media Services established in
section 209(b) of the Department of Education Organiza-
tion Act shall—
‘‘(1) provide information and leadership to ele-
mentary and secondary school library media special-
ists, teachers, and school administrators in order to
encourage improvement of educational programs,
train library personnel, use advanced technology,
and develop library resources, including resources
that will encourage students to acquire skills in
other languages; and
‘‘(2) monitor and administer—
‘‘(A) the grant programs for elementary
and secondary school library media center re-
source development;
‘‘(B) elementary and secondary school li-
brary media specialist and teacher partnership
grants for innovative education; and
‘‘(C) grants for uses of technology in the
classroom that are linked to the library media
center.
‘‘(b) ELEMENTARY
AND SECONDARY SCHOOL LI-
BRARY MEDIA PROGRAM.—
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
THE
ELEMENTARY
AND
SECONDARY
SCHOOL
LIBRARY
MEDIA
RE-
SOURCE
DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM.—The Director
shall award grants from allocations under paragraph
(2) to States for the acquisition of school library
media resources for the use of students, library
media specialists, and teachers in public elementary
and secondary schools.
‘‘(2) ALLOCATION
TO
STATES.—From the
amount appropriated pursuant to the authority of
paragraph (5) in each fiscal year, the Director shall
allocate to each State having an approved plan
under paragraph (3) an amount which bears the
same relationship to such funds as the amount such
State received under chapter 2 of title I of the Ele-
mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in
such year bears to the amount all States received
under such chapter in such year.
‘‘(3) STATE PLANS.—In order for a State to re-
ceive an allocation of funds under paragraph (2) for
any fiscal year such State shall have in effect for
such fiscal year a State plan. Such plan shall—
‘‘(A) designate the State educational agen-
cy as the State agency responsible for the ad-
ministration and supervision of the program de-
scribed in this section;
‘‘(B) set forth a program under which
funds paid to the State from its allocation
under paragraph (2) will be expended solely
for—
‘‘(i) acquisition of school library media
resources, including foreign language re-
sources, for the use of students, school li-
brary media specialists, and teachers in el-
ementary and secondary schools in the
United States; and
‘‘(ii) administration of the State plan,
including development and revision of
standards relating to school library media
resources, except that the amount used for
administration of the State plan in any fis-
cal year shall not exceed 5 percent of the
amount allocated to such State under
paragraph (2) for such fiscal year; and
‘‘(C) set forth the criteria to be used in al-
lotting funds for school library media resources
among the local educational agencies of the
State, which allotment shall take into consider-
ation the relative need of the students, school
media specialists, and teachers to be served.
‘‘(4) DISTRIBUTION OF ALLOCATION TO LOCAL
EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES.—
‘‘(A) DISTRIBUTION
RULE.—From the
funds allocated to a State under paragraph (2)
in each fiscal year, such State shall distribute
not less than 95 percent of such funds in such
year to local educational agencies within such
State according to the relative enrollment of
students in public elementary and secondary
schools within the school districts of such State,
adjusted to provide higher per-pupil allotments
to local educational agencies that have the
greatest number or percentages of students
whose education imposes a higher than average
cost per child, such as those students—
‘‘(i) living in areas with high con-
centrations of low-income families;
‘‘(ii) from low-income families; and
‘‘(iii) living in sparsely populated
areas.
‘‘(B) CALCULATION
OF
ENROLLMENT.—
The calculation of relative enrollments under
subparagraph (A) shall be made on the basis of
the total number of students enrolled in public
schools in the State.
‘‘(5) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
There 
are 
authorized 
to 
be 
appropriated
$200,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 and such sums as
may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal
years to carry out this subsection.
‘‘(c) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
THE SCHOOL LIBRARY
MEDIA SPECIALIST AND TEACHER PARTNERSHIPS FOR
INSTRUCTIONAL INNOVATION PROGRAM.—
‘‘(1) PROGRAM
ESTABLISHED.—The Director
shall award grants for projects that—
‘‘(A) encourage collaboration between pub-
lic elementary and secondary school library
media specialists and teachers in order to de-
velop units of instruction that enable elemen-
tary and secondary school students to use a va-
riety of information resources; and
‘‘(B) expand students’ information-gather-
ing abilities and cognitive skills of selection,
analysis, evaluation, and application.
‘‘(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
There 
are 
authorized 
to 
be 
appropriated
$20,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 and such sums as
may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal
years to carry out this subsection.
‘‘(d) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
THE USES
OF TECH-
NOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM PROGRAM.—
‘‘(1) PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Director shall
award grants to encourage collaborative elemen-
tary and secondary school library media special-
ist and teacher programs designed to—
‘‘(i) expand the use of computers and
computer networks in the curriculum; and
‘‘(ii) enable elementary and secondary
school library media centers to access in-
formation from computerized databases.
‘‘(B) COOPERATIVE
AGREEMENTS.—The
Director may enter into cooperative agreements
with the National Science Foundation and other
appropriate nonprofit agencies and organiza-
tions in carrying out this section.
‘‘(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
There 
are 
authorized 
to 
be 
appropriated
$40,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 and such sums as
may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal
years to carry out this subsection.
‘‘(e) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall
be construed to interfere with State and local initiative
and responsibility in the conduct and support of school
library media services, the administration of school library
media centers, or the selection of personnel or library
books and materials.
‘‘(f) SUPPLEMENTATION.—Funds provided under
this section shall be used so as to supplement and not sup-
plant other Federal, State, or local funds available to carry
out the activities and services assisted under this section.
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—For the purpose of this sec-
tion—
‘‘(1) the term ‘Director’ means the Director of
the Division of Elementary and Secondary School
Library Media Services established pursuant to sec-
tion 209(b) of the Department of Education Organi-
zation Act;
‘‘(2) the term ‘elementary school’ has the same
meaning given to such term by section 1471(8) of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965;
‘‘(3) the term ‘local educational agency’ has the
same meaning given to such term by section
1471(12) of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965;
‘‘(4) the term ‘secondary school’ has the same
meaning given to such term by section 1471(21) of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965;
‘‘(5) the term ‘State’ means each of the several
States of the United States, the District of Colum-
bia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Common-
wealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, the Re-
public of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States
of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau; and
‘‘(6) the term ‘State educational agency’ has
the same meaning given to such term by section
1471(23) of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965.’’.
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