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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1994
This document provides an overview and minority viewpoints on Senate Bill 1020. S. 1020 would authorize the Department of Labor to make grants to nonprofit organizations to research, identify, and develop new and advanced workplace technologies and practices to promote the improvements of workers' skills, wages, working conditions, and job…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Economic Development, Employer Employee Relationship, Federal Legislation
American Vocational Association, Alexandria, VA. – 1990
This guide is intended to give vocational educators a "jump start" on their understanding of and planning for the 1990 Perkins Act. Section 1 provides a synopsis of the entire act, with a general overview of each of the major titles. Section 2 provides an analysis of each element of significant change from the 1984 act to the new act.…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Financial Support, Occupational Information
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1990
This document contains a report written to accompany "The Tobacco Product Education and Health Protection Act" (S. 2795), which authorizes a new title XV of the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of information, education, and research regarding the hazards of tobacco use. A summary of the bill notes that: (1) Subtitle A of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Health Education, Information Dissemination, Research and Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. – 1991
This document presents a transcript of the hearing on the present state and future directions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the state of science and mathematics education in the United States. Testimony was presented by the director of the NSF and the deputy assistant direction of Education and Human Resources at NSF. The witnesses…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
US Congress, 2011
The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-358) was put in place to invest in innovation through research and development, to improve the competitiveness of the United States, and for other purposes. The table of contents for this Act is as follows: (1) Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents; (2) Sec. 2. Definitions; and (3)…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Computation, Research and Development, Innovation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. – 1993
This report accompanies H.R. 1757, the National Information Infrastructure Act of 1993. The bill, intended to provide for a coordinated federal program to accelerate development and dissemination of applications of high-performance computing and high-speed networking, is favorably reported by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology with an…
Descriptors: Budgets, Computer Networks, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1993
The House Committee on Education and Labor reports on the bill (H.R. 856) to improve education in the United States by promoting excellence in research, development, and the dissemination of information. The committee reports favorably on the bill, with an amendment, and recommends that the House pass the bill as amended. Consideration of H.R. 856…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Ols, John M., Jr. – 1991
Under current federal copyright law (17 U.S.C. 105), federal agencies cannot copyright and license their computer software. Officials at the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Institutes of Health state that a significant…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Software Development, Copyrights, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. – 1991
The purpose of the bill (S. 343), as reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, is to establish a federal commitment to the advancement of high-performance computing, improve interagency planning and coordination of federal high-performance computing and networking activities, authorize a national high-speed computer…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Penning, Nick – School Administrator, 1991
Congressional education committees will soon reconsider education laws about to expire. The most controversial task is reauthorizing the preschool grants program under the Education of the Handicapped Act. These committees will also restructure the Higher Education Act and the Office of Educational Research and consider a Children's Investment…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Childhood Needs, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1984
This volume is a compilation of the texts of nine Federal education laws, specifically vocational education, job training, rehabilitation, and related statutes. Part I contains one law related to vocational education--the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act 1984 (originally, Vocational Education Act of 1963). Part II provides the texts of six…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Disabilities
Andewelt, Roger B. – 1987
The recent increased awareness of the importance to our economy of innovation and the development of new technologies has been coupled with the crafting of new legislation to increase the level of intellectual property protection available to innovators. Because one of the key methods of encouraging the efficient use of intellectual property is…
Descriptors: Certification, Competition, Federal Legislation, Innovation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. – 1991
This report of a hearing begins with an opening statement by Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Chairman of the Committee, and prepared statements from Committee members Larry E. Craig and Pete V. Domenici. The text of the bill, which provides for continued U.S. leadership in high-performance computing, is then presented, followed by additional…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Gore, Albert, Jr. – EDUCOM Review, 1992
This statement by Senator Albert Gore, Jr., on introduction of the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 highlights examples of applications of high-performance computing, the components of the Information Infrastructure Development Program (i.e., education, libraries, manufacturing, and health care), and participating agencies. A…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Financial Support
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1992
This report on the Educational Research, Development, and Dissemination Excellence Act (H.R. 4014), an act to amend the General Education Provisions Act and reauthorize the Office of Educational Research and Improvement through 1996, presents background on the legislation, including a summary of 15 hearings held between 1987 and 1992 and a…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Educational Development, Educational Research, Federal Government
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