108th Congress

$250,000 in federal funding for a literacy and education program. The funding came from the Fund for the Improvement of Education, and was part of the conference agreement that passed H.R. 4818, the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2005.

The Second Chance Act of 2004 was introduced in the House of Representatives on June 23, 2004 as H.R. 4676 and earned 47 co-sponsors. The Senate version of the bill was introduced on September 10, 2004 as S. 2789 and earned six co-sponsors.