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IMPACT AID CORONAVIRUS RELIEF ACT

  Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that

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the Committee on Education and Labor be discharged from further 
consideration of the bill (H.R. 8472) to provide that, due to the 
disruptions caused by COVID-19, applications for impact aid funding for 
fiscal year 2022 may use certain data submitted in the fiscal year 2021 
application, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Kendra S. Horn of Oklahoma). Is there 
objection to the request of the gentleman from Virginia?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 8472

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Impact Aid Coronavirus 
     Relief Act''.

     SEC. 2. IMPACT AID PROGRAM.

        Due to the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 
     and notwithstanding sections 7002(j) and 7003(c) of the 
     Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
     7702(j), 7703(c)), a local educational agency desiring to 
     receive a payment under section 7002 or 7003 of such Act (20 
     U.S.C. 7702, 7703) for fiscal year 2022 that also submitted 
     an application for such payment for fiscal year 2021 shall, 
     in the application submitted under section 7005 of such Act 
     (20 U.S.C. 7705) for fiscal year 2022--
       (1) with respect to a requested payment under section 7002 
     of such Act--
       (A) use the data described in section 7002(j) of such Act 
     relating to calculating such payment that was submitted by 
     the local educational agency in the application for fiscal 
     year 2021; or
       (B) use the data relating to calculating such payment for 
     the fiscal year required under section 7002(j) of such Act; 
     and
       (2) with respect to a requested payment under section 7003 
     of such Act--
       (A) use the student count data relating to calculating such 
     payment that was submitted by the local educational agency in 
     the application for fiscal year 2021, provided that payments 
     for fiscal year 2022 shall be calculated by the Secretary 
     using the expenditures and rates described in clauses (i), 
     (ii), (iii), and (iv) of section 7003(b)(1)(C) of such Act 
     that would otherwise apply for fiscal year 2022; or
       (B) use the student count data relating to calculating such 
     payment for the fiscal year required under section 7003(c) of 
     such Act.

     SEC. 3. MIGRANT EDUCATION PROGRAM.

        Due to the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 
     and notwithstanding subsections (a)(1) and (f)(1) of section 
     1303 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
     (20 U.S.C. 6393), for the purposes of making determinations 
     under subsections (a)(1) and (f) of such section 1303 for 
     fiscal year 2021 and all subsequent fiscal years for which 
     school year 2019-2020 data would be used in the calculations 
     under section 1303(a)(1) of such Act, the Secretary of 
     Education shall use school year 2018-2019 data or school year 
     2019-2020 data, whichever data are greater, wherever school 
     year 2019-2020 data would otherwise be required.

  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read 
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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