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H.R. 320: Student Support Act

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H.R. 320: Student Support Act

113th Congress · introduced 2013-01-18 · Education · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-01-18 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Student Support Act

Plain summary

Student Support Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to make matching grants of at least $1 million to states for allocation to local educational agencies (LEAs) so that additional school-based mental health and student service providers may be hired, thereby reducing the student-to-provider ratios in elementary and secondary schools to specified minimum levels recommended by the leading counseling, guidance, and mental health organizations. Sets those minimum ratios at: (1) 1 school counselor for every 250 students, (2) 1 school psychologist for every 1,000 students, and (3) 1 school social worker for every 250 students. Requires grants to states and state allocations to LEAs to be made pursuant to specified formulas that take into account a state's and school district's share of children in poverty.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Student Support Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13] · 43 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Judy Chu (D-CA), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Richard E. Neal (D-MA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-hr320 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113