H.R.2646: Parent and Student Savings Account PLUS Act

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Tax Incentives for Education Subtitle A: Tax Incentives for Education Subtitle B: Revenue Subtitle C: Identification of Limited Tax Benefits Subject to Line Item Veto Title II: Measures to Encourage Results in Teaching Title III: Equal Educational Opportunity Title IV: Sense of Congress Title V: Reading Excellence Subtitle A: Reading Grants Subtitle B: Amendments to Even Start Family Literacy Programs Title VI:...

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Date Description
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 17.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 105-332.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 194.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 274 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2646 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. The amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means now printed in the bill, modified by the amendment printed in part 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, shall be considered as adopted. Measure will be considered read. A specified amendment is in order.
Rule H. Res. 274 passed House.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 274.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2646 in the House with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. The amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means now printed in the bill, modified by the amendment printed in part 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, shall be considered as adopted. Measure will be considered read. A specified amendment is in order.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 274. the House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Rangel amendment.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 230 - 198 (Roll no. 524).
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 227.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Cloture motion on the bill presented in Senate.
Considered by Senate.
Second cloture motion on the bill presented in Senate.
Cloture on the bill not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 56-41. Record Vote No: 288.
Second cloture on the bill not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 56-44. Record Vote No: 291.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
Cloture motion on the motion to proceed presented in Senate.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
Second cloture motion on the motion to proceed presented in Senate.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
Second cloture on the motion to proceed invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 74-24. Record Vote No: 34.
Considered by Senate.
Amendment SP 2019 proposed by Senator Roth.
Amendment SP 2019 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
Third cloture motion presented in Senate.
Fourth cloture motion presented in Senate.
Third cloture not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 55-44. Record Vote No: 38.
Considered by Senate.
Fourth cloture not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 58-42. Record Vote No: 46.
Fifth cloture motion presented in Senate.
Fith cloture motion withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Amendment SP 2288 proposed by Senator Mack.
Amendment SP 2017 proposed by Senator Glenn.
Amendment SP 2289 proposed by Senator Kennedy.
Amendment SP 2290 proposed by Senator Coverdell for Senator D'Amato to Amendment SP 2288.
Amendment SP 2291 proposed by Senator Coverdell for Senator Hutchison.
Amendment SP 2290 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
Considered by Senate.
Motion to table SP 2289 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 56-41. Record Vote No: 86.
Motion to table SP 2017 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 60-38. Record Vote No: 87.
Amendment SP 2288 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 63-35. Record Vote No: 88.
Amendment SP 2291 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 69-29. Record Vote No: 89.
Amendment SP 2292 proposed by Senator Moseley-Braun.
Motion to table SP 2292 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 56-42. Record Vote No: 90.
Considered by Senate.
Amendment SP 2293 proposed by Senator Gorton.
Amendment SP 2294 proposed by Senator Frist to Amendment SP 2293.
Amendment SP 2294 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
Amendment SP 2295 proposed by Senator Murray.
Amendment SP 2296 proposed by Senator Hutchinson to Amendment SP 2295.
Amendment SP 2297 proposed by Senator Coats.
Amendment SP 2299 proposed by Senator Levin.
Amendment SP 2300 proposed by Senator Ashcroft to Amendment SP 2299.
Amendment SP 2301 proposed by Senator Landrieu.
Amendment SP 2302 proposed by Senator Kempthorne to Amendment SP 2301.
Amendment SP 2293 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50-49. Record Vote No: 91.
Amendment SP 2296 as modified agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 99-0. Record Vote No: 92.
Amendment SP 2295 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 49-50. Record Vote No: 93.
Amendment SP 2300 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52-47. Record Vote No: 94.
Amendment SP 2303 proposed by Senator Levin to Amendment SP 2299.
Considered by Senate.
Amendment SP 2297 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 46-54. Record Vote No: 95.
Amendment SP 2302 as modified agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 58-42. Record Vote No: 96.
The amendment (SP 2302) is considered an amendment in the first degree. By Unanimous Consent.
Amendment SP 2301 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 34-66. Record Vote No: 97.
Amendment SP 2305 proposed by Senator Dodd.
Point of order raised in Senate with respect to SP 2305.
Motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to SP 2305 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 46-53. Record Vote No: 98.
SP 2305 ruled out of order by the chair.
Amendment SP 2306 proposed by Senator Boxer.
Amendment SP 2298 proposed by Senator Coverdell for Senator McCain.
Amendment SP 2298 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
Amendment SP 2307 proposed by Senator Coverdell for Senator Dorgan.
Amendment SP 2307 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
Amendment SP 2308 proposed by Senator Bingaman.
Amendment SP 2309 proposed by Senator Coverdell.
Motion to table SP 2303 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 61-39. Record Vote No: 99.
Amendment SP 2299 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
Amendment SP 2306 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 49-51. Record Vote No: 100.
Amendment SP 2309 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
Amendment SP 2308 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 74-26. Record Vote No: 101.
The committee substitute as amended agreed to by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 56-43. Record Vote No: 102.
Senate appointed conferees Roth; Mack; Coats; Gorton; Coverdell; Moynihan; Moseley-Braun; Kennedy; Bingaman by unanimous consent.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Mr. Archer asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference.
On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Mr. Rangel moved that the House instruct conferees.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Rangel motion to instruct conferees on the part of the House at the conference to agree to provisions relating to tax-favored financing for public school construction consistent, to the maximum extent possible within the scope of conference, with the approach taken in H.R. 3320, the Public School Modernization Act of 1998.
The previous question was ordered without objection.
On motion that the House instruct conferees Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 192 - 222 (Roll No. 136).
The Speaker appointed conferees for consideration of the House bill and Senate amendment and modifications committed to conference: Archer, Goodling, Armey, Rangel, and Clay.
Conference held.
Conference report H. Rept. 105-577 filed.
Conference papers: Senate report and managers' statement held at the desk in Senate.
Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 471 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 2646. All points of order against the conference report and against its consideration are waived. The conference report shall be considered as read when called up for consideration.
Rule H. Res. 471 passed House.
Mr. Goodling brought up conference report H. Rept. 105-577 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 471.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report.
The previous question was ordered without objection.
Mr. Rangel moved to recommit with instructions to the conference committee.
The previous question on the motion to recommit to conference committee was ordered without objection.
On motion to recommit to conference committee Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 196 - 225 (Roll No. 242).
Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 225 - 197 (Roll No. 243).
Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
Conference report considered in Senate. By Unanimous Consent.
Conference report considered in Senate.
Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 59-36. Record Vote No: 169.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Cleared for White House.
Presented to President.
Vetoed by President.
The Chair laid before the House the veto message from the President.
Mr. Herger moved to refer the bill and accompanying veto message to the Committee on Ways and Means.
On motion to refer the bill and the accompanying veto message to the Committee on Ways and Means. Agreed to without objection.
Oct. 9, 1997

Introduced in the House by Bill Archer (R-Texas)

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