Lifetime of Education Opportunities Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-9
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Adult education
Alaska
Apprenticeship
Authorization
Automobiles
Child support
Church and social problems
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collection of accounts
Compensatory education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Education
Department of Labor
Disabled
Disaster relief
Disasters
Discrimination in employment
Dislocated workers
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee training
Employment agencies
Employment of the disabled
Employment subsidies
English language
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal officials
Finance and Financial Sector
Functional literacy
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Hawaii
Hawaiians
Higher education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Indian children
Job hunting
Law
Layoffs
Licenses
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Native Americans
Oklahoma
Performance measurement
Personal budgets
Planning
Plant shutdowns
Poor children
Prisoners
Reading
Recruiting of employees
Regional planning
Rehabilitation of criminals
Religion
Religious liberty
Relocation
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Small business
Social Welfare
Special education
State employees
State officials
Strategic planning
Teleconferencing
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Vocational and technical education
Vocational rehabilitation
Workplace literacy
Youth employment
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Lifetime of Education Opportunities Act of 2005 - Expresses the sense of the Senate regarding: Head Start; elementary and secondary education; career and technical education; mathematics and science education; loan forgiveness for teachers; teacher preparation; teacher incentives; teacher tax credits; higher education and lifelong learning opportunities; minority serving institutions; making education more affordable; and a refundable tax credit for public or private school tuition and transportation costs.
 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations for teacher quality enhancement grants for States and partnerships. 
 
Makes permanent specified affordable education requirements under the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.
 
Workforce Investment Act Amendments of 2005 - Amends title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) to revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations for workforce investment systems for job training and employment services, including the Job Corps.
 
Adult Education and Family Literacy Act Amendments of 2005 - Amends title II of WIA, also known as the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, to revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations for adult basic skills education, including adult education and family literacy programs. 
 
Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act to: (1) require employment services offices in each State to be co-located with comprehensive one-stop centers under WIA-I; and (2) revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations for the workforce and labor market information system to be carried out through grants or cooperative agreements with the States.
 
Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 2005 - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations for vocational rehabilitation services.
 
Amends the Helen Keller National Center Act to reauthorize appropriations for such Act in general and for the Helen Keller National Center Federal Endowment Fund.
 
 Give Back to Parents Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a refundable tax credit for education, tuition, and transportation expenses of students assigned to schools identified for school improvement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S146-147)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate