S 3328
116th Congress
Senate
Education
Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
BEST Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 25, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Feb 25, 2020
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Biliteracy Education Seal and Teaching Act or the BEST Act
This bill directs the Department of Education to award renewable two-year grants to states to establish or improve, and carry out, Seal of Biliteracy programs to recognize student proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in both English and a second language.
Such programs must allow speakers of any official Native American language to use equivalent proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in such language in lieu of proficiency in English.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1