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[Pages H5659-H5660]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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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