Senate Bill 3596
115th Congress(2017-2018)
Innovation Zone Act
Introduced
Introduced in Senate on Oct 11, 2018
Origin Chamber
Senate
Type
Bill
Bill
The primary form of legislative measure used to propose law. Depending on the chamber of origin, bills begin with a designation of either H.R. or S. Joint resolution is another form of legislative measure used to propose law.
Bill Number
3596
Congress
115
Policy Area
Education
Education
Primary focus of measure is elementary, secondary, or higher education including special education and matters of academic performance, school administration, teaching, educational costs, and student aid.
No Senate votes have been held for this bill.
Summary
Innovation Zone Act
This bill replaces the Experimental Sites Initiative of the Department of Education (ED) with an innovation zone initiative consisting of voluntary experiments by participating institutions of higher education. Under the experiments, ED and the institutions may test the effectiveness of statutory and regulatory flexibility that aims for: (1) an increase in student success (e.g., reductions in student loan debt and increases in student retention and employment outcomes); and (2) a reduction of regulations on institutions or ED, without harm to students.
October 11, 2018
10/11/2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
10/11/2018
Introduced in Senate
Public Record
Record Updated
Jan 11, 2023 1:41:07 PM