[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1151 Introduced in House (IH)]
103d CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1151
To provide for elementary and secondary school library media resources,
technology enhancement, training and improvement.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 25, 1993
Mr. Reed (for himself, Mrs. Mink, and Mr. Petri) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and
Labor
January 5, 1994
Additional sponsors: Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Markey, Ms. Byrne,
Mr. Towns, Mr. Scott, Mr. Gunderson, Mr. Payne of New Jersey, Mrs.
Unsoeld, Mr. Romero-Barcelo, Mr. Owens, Mr. Kopetski, Mr. Evans, Mr.
Nadler, Mrs. Morella, Mr. Pastor, Mr. Oberstar, Mr. Clay, Mr. Hilliard,
Mr. Fish, Mr. Mazzoli, Mr. Vento, Mr. English of Oklahoma, Mr.
Gejdenson, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Boehlert, Mr. Traficant, Mr. Torricelli, Mr.
Wilson, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Visclosky, Mr.
Sanders, Mr. Stupak, Mr. Andrews of Maine, Ms. Norton, Mr. Darden, Mr.
Rahall, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Baesler, Mr. Sarpalius, Mr. Andrews
of New Jersey, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Barlow, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota,
Mr. Schumer, Mr. Bilbray, Ms. Harman, Mr. Olver, Mr. Rose, Ms.
Shepherd, Mr. Sawyer, Mr. Bachus of Alabama, Mr. Becerra, and Mr.
Waxman
Deleted sponsor: Mr. Mfume (added April 21, 1993; deleted November 22,
1993)
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A BILL
To provide for elementary and secondary school library media resources,
technology enhancement, training and improvement.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Elementary and Secondary School
Library Media Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
(1) in order to prepare our Nation's children for the
challenges of the future, as well as keeping our Nation
competitive in a global economy, every elementary and secondary
school in the United States should be equipped with the best
and most up-to-date library resources, certified library media
specialists, access to advanced technology, and instruction on
the use of library and information resources;
(2) our Nation's elementary and secondary school libraries
are primarily dependent on a core of deteriorating and out-of-
date library materials purchased with original funding from the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965;
(3) school library media center expenditures, when adjusted
for inflation, have declined 16 percent in public schools since
1979; and
(4) small and rural school libraries are further
disadvantaged because of small budgets based on low student
enrollments, and limited access to resources, services, and
personnel.
(b) Statement of Purpose.--It is the purpose of this Act to--
(1) establish within the Department of Education Office of
Educational Research and Improvement a Division of Elementary
and Secondary School Library Media Services to provide
information and leadership to school library media programs and
personnel nationwide;
(2) provide continued funding for elementary and secondary
school library media program improvement, equity, innovation,
and technological advancement;
(3) establish a partnership program for elementary and
secondary school teachers and school library media specialists
to jointly design resource and curriculum-based instructional
activities that provide opportunities for students to access a
broad diversity of resources and information, and other
languages and cultures, including materials that will encourage
understanding; and
(4) establish a partnership program for encouraging uses of
technology and the sharing of information and access to
resources by elementary and secondary school students, school
library media specialists, and teachers.
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT AND FUNCTIONS OF THE DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND
SECONDARY SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA SERVICES.
(a) Division Established.--Section 209 of the Department of
Education Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3419) is amended--
(1) by inserting ``(a) Office.--'' before ``There''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(b) Division.--There is established within the Office of
Educational Research and Improvement a Division of Elementary and
Secondary School Library Media Services, to be administered by a
Director of such Division.''.
(b) Functions of the Division.--Part A of title IV of the General
Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1221c) is amended by inserting
after section 405 the following new section:
``SEC. 405A. DIVISION OF LIBRARY MEDIA SERVICES.
``(a) Functions.--The Division of Elementary and Secondary School
Library Media Services established in section 209(b) of the Department
of Education Organization Act shall--
``(1) provide information and leadership to elementary and
secondary school library media specialists, teachers, and
school administrators in order to encourage improvement of
educational programs, train library personnel, use advanced
technology, and develop library resources, including resources
that will encourage students to acquire skills in other
languages; and
``(2) monitor and administer--
``(A) the grant programs for elementary and
secondary school library media center resource
development;
``(B) elementary and secondary school library media
specialist and teacher partnership grants for
innovative education; and
``(C) grants for uses of technology in the
classroom that are linked to the library media center.
``(b) Elementary and Secondary School Library Media Program.--
``(1) Establishment of the elementary and secondary school
library media resource development program.--The Director shall
award grants from allocations under paragraph (2) to States for
the acquisition of school library media resources for the use
of students, library media specialists, and teachers in public
elementary and secondary schools.
``(2) Allocation to states.--From the amount appropriated
pursuant to the authority of paragraph (5) in each fiscal year,
the Director shall allocate to each State having an approved
plan under paragraph (3) an amount which bears the same
relationship to such funds as the amount such State received
under chapter 2 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 in such year bears to the amount all
States received under such chapter in such year.
``(3) State plans.--In order for a State to receive an
allocation of funds under paragraph (2) for any fiscal year
such State shall have in effect for such fiscal year a State
plan. Such plan shall--
``(A) designate the State educational agency as the
State agency responsible for the administration and
supervision of the program described in this section;
``(B) set forth a program under which funds paid to
the State from its allocation under paragraph (2) will
be expended solely for--
``(i) acquisition of school library media
resources, including foreign language
resources, for the use of students, school
library media specialists, and teachers in
elementary and secondary schools in the United
States; and
``(ii) administration of the State plan,
including development and revision of standards
relating to school library media resources,
except that the amount used for administration
of the State plan in any fiscal year shall not
exceed 5 percent of the amount allocated to
such State under paragraph (2) for such fiscal
year; and
``(C) set forth the criteria to be used in
allotting funds for school library media resources
among the local educational agencies of the State,
which allotment shall take into consideration the
relative need of the students, school media
specialists, and teachers to be served.
``(4) Distribution of allocation to local educational
agencies.--
``(A) Distribution rule.--From the funds allocated
to a State under paragraph (2) in each fiscal year,
such State shall distribute not less than 95 percent of
such funds in such year to local educational agencies
within such State according to the relative enrollment
of students in public elementary and secondary schools
within the school districts of such State, adjusted to
provide higher per-pupil allotments to local
educational agencies that have the greatest number or
percentages of students whose education imposes a
higher than average cost per child, such as those
students--
``(i) living in areas with high
concentrations of low-income families;
``(ii) from low-income families; and
``(iii) living in sparsely populated areas.
``(B) Calculation of enrollment.--The calculation
of relative enrollments under subparagraph (A) shall be
made on the basis of the total number of students
enrolled in public schools in the State.
``(5) Authorization of appropriations.--There are
authorized to be appropriated $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1994
and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding
fiscal years to carry out this subsection.
``(c) Establishment of the School Library Media Specialist and
Teacher Partnerships for Instructional Innovation Program.--
``(1) Program established.--The Director shall award grants
for projects that--
``(A) encourage collaboration between public
elementary and secondary school library media
specialists and teachers in order to develop units of
instruction that enable elementary and secondary school
students to use a variety of information resources; and
``(B) expand students' information-gathering
abilities and cognitive skills of selection, analysis,
evaluation, and application.
``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are
authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1994
and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding
fiscal years to carry out this subsection.
``(d) Establishment of the Uses of Technology in the Classroom
Program.--
``(1) Program established.--
``(A) In general.--The Director shall award grants
to encourage collaborative elementary and secondary
school library media specialist and teacher programs
designed to--
``(i) expand the use of computers and
computer networks in the curriculum; and
``(ii) enable elementary and secondary
school library media centers to access
information from computerized databases.
``(B) Cooperative agreements.--The Director may
enter into cooperative agreements with the National
Science Foundation and other appropriate nonprofit
agencies and organizations in carrying out this
section.
``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are
authorized to be appropriated $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1994
and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding
fiscal years to carry out this subsection.
``(e) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to
interfere with State and local initiative and responsibility in the
conduct and support of school library media services, the
administration of school library media centers, or the selection of
personnel or library books and materials.
``(f) Supplementation.--Funds provided under this section shall be
used so as to supplement and not supplant other Federal, State, or
local funds available to carry out the activities and services assisted
under this section.
``(g) Definitions.--For the purpose of this section--
``(1) the term `Director' means the Director of the
Division of Elementary and Secondary School Library Media
Services established pursuant to section 209(b) of the
Department of Education Organization Act;
``(2) the term `elementary school' has the same meaning
given to such term by section 1471(8) of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965;
``(3) the term `local educational agency' has the same
meaning given to such term by section 1471(12) of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965;
``(4) the term `secondary school' has the same meaning
given to such term by section 1471(21) of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965;
``(5) the term `State' means each of the several States of
the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, the Republic of
the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and
the Republic of Palau; and
``(6) the term `State educational agency' has the same
meaning given to such term by section 1471(23) of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.''.
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