PlainBillCongress, translated.Legislation. Context. Public interest.Congressional Research Service
Version 00 · Introduced in House · Dec 8, 2014
Support Making Assessments Reliable and Timely Act or the SMART Act - Amends subpart 1 (Accountability) of part A of title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise the program allotting grants to states to develop and administer state academic content and achievement standards and assessments of student progress toward those standards.
Requires each state to use such grant to:
develop and administer such assessments and further align them with the state's academic content standards,
Showing the opening paragraphs of the official summary.
ensure that students with limited English proficiency and disabled students are provided with appropriate accommodations to improve their inclusion in the assessments,
develop state assessment systems aligned to content standards that support systems of continuous improvement,
support local educational agencies (LEAs) in identifying uses of assessment data, and
carry out certain other activities to improve the quality and use of state assessments.
Revises the program awarding competitive grants to states to enhance assessment instruments.
Requires each grantee that has not yet received a grant under such program to use the grant to:
carry out audits of the state assessment system and ensure that LEAs carry out audits of local assessments;
prepare and carry out a state plan, in coordination with LEAs, to improve and streamline state and local assessment systems; and
award subgrants to LEAs to improve the quality and use of local assessments and their alignment with state academic content standards.
Requires a state that has previously received such a grant to use a new grant to:
carry out a state plan, in coordination with LEAs, to improve and streamline state and local assessment systems; and
award subgrants to LEAs to improve the quality and use of local assessments and their alignment with state academic content standards.
Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to states to improve their understanding of existing flexibility in the design and implementation of high-quality, streamlined state assessment systems to measure student progress toward state academic achievement standards.
Reauthorizes appropriations for the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the revised subpart 1 grant programs.
People & committees
Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] · D–OR
Legislative record
A procedural vote is different from passage. Passage in one chamber does not establish enactment. Explore the glossary.
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Primary sources
Text links open the official source. We currently store references to these documents.
No related bills are listed in this snapshot. This does not establish whether the proposal has appeared in earlier Congresses.
Source last updated: Aug 12, 2025. Consult Congress.gov for the current record.
AI Conversation Starters
Choose a perspective, copy a prompt, and paste it into your preferred AI. Each prompt includes the bill version and available official source links, and asks for counterarguments as well as supporting evidence.
Analyze H.R.5807 as objectively as possible. Explain its main provisions, who would be affected, possible benefits and harms, implementation, exceptions, and uncertainties. Present the strongest arguments for and against it, and identify evidence needed to assess its public impact.
Examine H.R.5807 through a progressive lens, focusing on fairness, access, economic inequality, and effects on vulnerable communities. Explain potential benefits, costs, and unintended consequences. Consider the strongest counterarguments and distinguish stated goals from demonstrated outcomes.
Examine H.R.5807 through a conservative lens, focusing on fiscal responsibility, institutional stability, federalism, and the scope of government. Explain potential benefits, costs, and unintended consequences. Consider the strongest counterarguments and any provisions that challenge this perspective.
Examine H.R.5807 through a civil-liberties and limited-government lens. Consider individual rights, privacy, voluntary choice, accountability, and government power. Explain tradeoffs, possible safeguards, and the strongest counterarguments without assuming the proposal is beneficial or harmful.