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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3145 

To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to 

provide full Federal funding of such part. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 30, 2005 

Mr. BASS (for himself, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. SIMMONS, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. 

RAMSTAD, Mr. BRADLEY of New Hampshire, and Mr. MORAN of Kansas) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 

Education and the Workforce 

A BILL 

To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities 

Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mandatory IDEA Full 

5 Funding Compromise Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO IDEA. 

7 Section 611(i) of the Individuals with Disabilities 

8 Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411(i)) is amended to read 

9 as follows: 
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1 ‘‘(i) FUNDING.— 

2 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For the purpose of car3 rying out this part, other than section 619, there are 

4 authorized to be appropriated— 

5 ‘‘(A) $14,648,647,143 or 25.7 percent of 

6 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

7 whichever is less, for fiscal year 2006, and 

8 there are hereby appropriated $4,058,947,143 

9 or 7.1 percent of the amount determined under 

10 paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fiscal year 

11 2006, which shall become available for obliga12 tion on July 1, 2006, and shall remain available 

13 through September 30, 2007; 

14 ‘‘(B) $16,938,917,714 or 28.9 percent of 

15 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

16 whichever is less, for fiscal year 2007, and 

17 there are hereby appropriated $6,349,217,714 

18 or 10.8 percent of the amount determined 

19 under paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fis20 cal year 2007, which shall become available for 

21 obligation on July 1, 2007, and shall remain 

22 available through September 30, 2008; 

23 ‘‘(C) $19,229,188,286 or 32.3 percent of 

24 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

25 whichever is less, for fiscal year 2008, and 
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1 there are hereby appropriated $8,639,488,286 

2 or 14.5 percent of the amount determined 

3 under paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fis4 cal year 2008, which shall become available for 

5 obligation on July 1, 2008, and shall remain 

6 available through September 30, 2009; 

7 ‘‘(D) $21,519,458,857 or 35.3 percent of 

8 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

9 whichever is less, for fiscal year 2009, and 

10 there are hereby appropriated $10,929,758,887 

11 or 17.9 percent of the amount determined 

12 under paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fis13 cal year 2009, which shall become available for 

14 obligation on July 1, 2009, and shall remain 

15 available through September 30, 2010; 

16 ‘‘(E) $23,809,729,429 or 38.1 percent of 

17 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

18 whichever is less, for fiscal year 2010, and 

19 there are hereby appropriated $13,220,029,429 

20 or 21.2 percent of the amount determined 

21 under paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fis22 cal year 2010, which shall become available for 

23 obligation on July 1, 2010, and shall remain 

24 available through September 30, 2011; 
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1 ‘‘(F) $26,100,000,000 or 40 percent of the 

2 amount determined under paragraph (2), 

3 whichever is less, for fiscal year 2011, and 

4 there are hereby appropriated $15,510,300,000 

5 or 21.3 percent of the amount determined 

6 under paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fis7 cal year 2011, which shall become available for 

8 obligation on July 1, 2011, and shall remain 

9 available through September 30, 2012; and 

10 ‘‘(G) 40 percent of the amount determined 

11 under paragraph (2) for fiscal year 2012 and 

12 each subsequent fiscal year, and there are here13 by appropriated 21.3 percent of the amount de14 termined under paragraph (2) for fiscal year 

15 2012 and each subsequent fiscal year, which 

16 shall become available for obligation (A) with 

17 respect to fiscal year 2012, on July 1, 2012, 

18 and shall remain available through September 

19 30, 2013, and (B) with respect to each subse20 quent fiscal year, on July 1 of that fiscal year 

21 and shall remain available through September 

22 30 of the succeeding fiscal year. 

23 ‘‘(2) AMOUNT.—The amount referred to in each 

24 of subparagraphs (A) through (G) of paragraph (1) 

25 is the product of— 
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1 ‘‘(A) the number of children with disabil2 ities in all States who are receiving special edu3 cation and related services— 

4 ‘‘(i) aged 3 through 5 if the State is 

5 eligible for a grant under section 619; and 

6 ‘‘(ii) aged 6 through 21; and 

7 ‘‘(B) the average per-pupil expenditure in 

8 public elementary and secondary schools in the 

9 United States.’’. 

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