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Key Votes
HR 2646 - Education Savings Accounts bill - Key Vote
National Key Votes
Joe Pitts voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Read statements Joe Pitts made in this general time period.
Stages
- July 21, 1998 Executive Vetoed
- June 24, 1998 Senate Conference Report Adopted
- June 18, 1998 House Conference Report Adopted
- April 23, 1998 Senate Bill Passed
- Oct. 23, 1997 House Bill Passed
- Oct. 9, 1997 Introduced
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Stage Details
Legislation - Vetoed (Executive) - July 21, 1998
Legislation - Conference Report Adopted (Senate) (59-36) - June 24, 1998(Key vote)
Title: Education Savings Accounts bill
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that increases the maximum annual contribution parents can make to tax-free education accounts.
Highlights:
- Increases the Education Savings Account (ESA) limit from $500 to $2,000 annually per child.
- Includes elementary and secondary education expenses, as well as private school tuition, homeschooling expenses, transportation, academic tutoring, books and other supplies.
- Exempts "special needs" beneficiaries from the beneficiary age limitation of 18.
- Allows corporations to make contributions to ESAs.
- Excludes employer-provided educational assistance from gross income calculations.
- Grants rewards to states that have a system of regular testing and merit pay for all elementary and secondary school teachers.
- Expresses the sense of Congress that 95 percent of all education funding for elementary and secondary schools be spent on children in the classrooms.
- Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to state-established reading and literacy partnerships, and to statewide family literacy initiatives.
- Allows States to use Federal education funds for teacher testing and merit pay.
Legislation - Conference Report Adopted (House) (225-197) - June 18, 1998(Key vote)
Title: Education Savings Accounts bill
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that increases the maximum annual contribution parents can make to tax-free education accounts.
Highlights:
- Increases the Education Savings Account (ESA) limit from $500 to $2,000 annually per child.
- Includes elementary and secondary education expenses, as well as private school tuition, homeschooling expenses, transportation, academic tutoring, books and other supplies.
- Exempts "special needs" beneficiaries from the beneficiary age limitation of 18.
- Allows corporations to make contributions to ESAs.
- Excludes employer-provided educational assistance from gross income calculations.
- Grants rewards to states that have a system of regular testing and merit pay for all elementary and secondary school teachers.
- Expresses the sense of Congress that 95 percent of all education funding for elementary and secondary schools be spent on children in the classrooms.
- Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to state-established reading and literacy partnerships, and to statewide family literacy initiatives.
- Allows States to use Federal education funds for teacher testing and merit pay.
Legislation - Bill Passed With Amendment (Senate) (56-43) - April 23, 1998(Key vote)
Title: Education Savings Accounts bill
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that increases the maximum annual contribution parents can make to tax-free education accounts.
Highlights:
- Increases the Education Savings Account (ESA) limit from $500 to $2,000 annually per child.
- Includes elementary and secondary education expenses, as well as private school tuition, home schooling expenses, transportation, academic tutoring, books and other supplies.
- Exempts "special needs" beneficiaries from the beneficiary age limitation of 18.
- Allows corporations to make contributions to ESAs.
- Excludes employer-provided educational assistance from gross income calculations.
- Grants rewards to states that have a system of regular testing and merit pay for all elementary and secondary school teachers.
- Expresses the sense of Congress that 95 percent of all education funding for elementary and secondary schools should be spent on children in the classrooms.
- Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to state-established reading and literacy partnerships and to statewide family literacy initiatives.
- Expresses the sense of Congress that it should be a national priority to lower the school dropout rate and increase school completion for middle school and secondary school students.
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (230-198) - Oct. 23, 1997(Key vote)
Title: Education Savings Accounts bill
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that increases the maximum annual contribution parents can make to tax-free education accounts.
Highlights:
- Increases the Education Savings Account (ESA) limit from $500 to $2,000 annually per child.
- Includes elementary and secondary education expenses, as well as private school tuition, homeschooling expenses, transportation, academic tutoring, books and other supplies.
- Exempts "special needs" beneficiaries from the beneficiary age limitation of 18.
- Allows corporations to make contributions to ESAs.
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Oct. 9, 1997
Title: Education Savings Accounts bill
Sponsors
- William Reynolds 'Bill' Archer (TX - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Richard K. 'Dick' Armey (TX - R) (Out Of Office)
- Spencer T. Bachus (AL - R) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas J. 'Tom' Bliley Jr. (VA - R) (Out Of Office)
- John A. Boehner (OH - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jim Bunning (KY - ) (Out Of Office)
- Steven J. 'Steve' Chabot (OH - R)
- Jon Lynn Christensen (NE - R) (Out Of Office)
- Michael Allen 'Mac' Collins (GA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas Dale 'Tom' DeLay (TX - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jennifer B. Dunn (WA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Vernon J. 'Vern' Ehlers (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jo Ann Emerson (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- John Eric Ensign (NV - R) (Out Of Office)
- Floyd H. Flake (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Newton Leroy 'Newt' Gingrich (GA - R) (Out Of Office)
- William F. 'Bill' Goodling (PA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kay Granger (TX - R)
- James C. 'Jim' Greenwood (PA - ) (Out Of Office)
- John David 'J.D.' Hayworth Jr. (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Walter 'Wally' Herger Jr. (CA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Peter 'Pete' Hoekstra (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kenny C. Hulshof (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Robert 'Bob' Inglis Sr. (SC - R) (Out Of Office)
- John Richard Kasich (OH - R) (Out Of Office)
- John Linder (GA - R) (Out Of Office)
- William O. Lipinski (IL - ) (Out Of Office)
- James O. 'Jim' McCrery III (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Dan Miller (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
- Mark W. Neumann (WI - R) (Out Of Office)
- James A. 'Jim' Nussle (IA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Paul Michael 'Mike' Parker (MS - ) (Out Of Office)
- Richard W. Pombo (CA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Deborah D. Pryce (OH - R) (Out Of Office)
- Robert R. 'Bob' Riley (AL - ) (Out Of Office)
- Vincent K. Snowbarger (KS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Mark Edward Souder (IN - R) (Out Of Office)
- Clifford Bundy 'Cliff' Stearns (FL - R) (Out Of Office)
- James M. 'Jim' Talent (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Gerald C. 'Jerry' Weller (IL - R) (Out Of Office)
