Introduced
by
To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Department of Education budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Republican-majority in the Senate on various spending details.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To strip out funding for a proposed "office of the legislative education ombudsman".
The amendment failed 12 to 24 (details)
Amendment offered
by
To strip out funding related to a proposed "office of the legislative education ombudsman".
The amendment failed 13 to 23 (details)
Passed in the Senate 24 to 12 (details)
The Senate version of the Department of Education budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $322.4 million (compared to $328.9 million the previous year), of which $232.4 million would come from the federal government.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, but is instead intended to launch negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 60 to 48 (details)
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (details)
To concur with a House-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.
Received
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
