HR 4629
109th Congress
House
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K-16 Critical Foreign Language Pipeline Act
Introduced: December 17, 2005
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 24, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Jul 24, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Dec 17, 2005
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, 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.
Dec 17, 2005
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
K-16 Critical Foreign Language Pipeline Act - Amends the David L. Boren National Security Education Act of 1991 to create a Critical Foreign Language Program.
Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide grants to five institutions of higher education to establish such program to collaborate with elementary schools and secondary schools for language learning pipelines to train students from kindergarten through college to be proficient in those foreign languages that the Secretary identifies as being the most critical in the interests of U.S. national security.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.