About the bill
How much of a priority should music and arts education be in America’s public schools?
Context
3.9 million public elementary school students have no access to visual arts classes, while 1.3 million have no access to music classes, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
What the bill does
The Guarantee Access to Arts and Music Education (GAAME) Act [H.R. 6137 + S. 3391] would give more American students access to music and arts education.
It would do so by incentivizing such federal money be spent through 2015’s Every Student Succeeds Act, which for the past three years has been the primary legislation governing American education policy. (It replaced 2002’s more famous No Child Left Behind Act.) The money would be reallocated from existing federal education funds, …
Sponsor and status
115th Congress (2017–2019)
This bill was introduced on June 19, 2018, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
Although this bill was not enacted, its provisions could have become law by being included in another bill. It is common for legislative text to be introduced concurrently in multiple bills (called companion bills), re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress in new bills, or added to larger bills (sometimes called omnibus bills).
65 Cosponsors (61 Democrats, 4 Republicans)
Position statements
What legislators are saying
“Washington Review, July 16, 2018”
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Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ8, 2013-2022]
(Co-sponsor)
on Jul 16, 2018
History
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Jun 19, 2018
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Introduced
Bills and resolutions are referred to committees which debate the bill before possibly sending it on to the whole chamber. |
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Mar 11, 2019
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Reintroduced Bill —
Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 1676 (116th). |
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Feb 9, 2023
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Reintroduced Bill —
Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 969. |
H.R. 6137 (115th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 6137. This is the one from the 115th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 115th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2017 to Jan 3, 2019. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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