S.1642: Higher Education Amendments of 2007

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Bill Summary

Higher Education Amendments of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise HEA programs and to extend the authorization of appropriations for them through FY2013. Title I: General Provisions - (Sec. 101) Adds definitions of a critical foreign language, distance education, and poverty line. Provides that critical foreign languages are those contained on the list designated by the Secretary of Education in the Federal Register...

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Bill Actions

Date Description
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Kennedy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 264.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Considered by Senate.
The committee substitute as amended agreed to by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 95 - 0. Record Vote Number: 275.
Received in the House.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Held at the desk.
By Senator Kennedy from Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions filed written report. Report No. 110-231.
June 18, 2007

Introduced in the Senate by Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)

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