Introduced
by
To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 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.
Amendment offered
To reduce funding to a department office that manages preschool programs, and increase spending on programs to recruit and train minority teachers.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 36 to 0 (details)
The Senate version of the Department of Education budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2018. This would appropriate $432.5 million in gross spending, of which $330.8 million is federal money.
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that contains no appropriations except a few $100 "placeholders" on some line items.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 107 to 1 (details)
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it as a "template" or "placeholder." This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets. The House has actually passed its version of the full budget in two "omnibus" bills, House Bills 5578 and 5579.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
