II 

109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 2185 

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

provide full Federal funding of such part. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 25, 2006 

Mr. HAGEL (for himself, Mr. HARKIN, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. 

SCHUMER, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. WARNER, Mr. DAYTON, Mr. KERRY, 

Mr. CHAFEE, Mr. KENNEDY, Ms. MIKULSKI, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. DODD, 

Mr. REED, Ms. COLLINS, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. COLEMAN, 

and Mr. JOHNSON) introduced the following bill; which was read twice 

and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

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 ‘‘IDEA Full Funding 

5 Act’’. 
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1 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO IDEA. 

2 Section 611(i) of the Individuals with Disabilities 

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

4 as follows: 

5 ‘‘(i) FUNDING.—For the purpose of carrying out this 

6 part, other than section 619, there are authorized to be 

7 appropriated— 

8 ‘‘(1) $16,938,917,714 for fiscal year 2007, and 

9 there are hereby appropriated $6,355,957,174 for 

10 fiscal year 2007, which shall become available for 

11 obligation on July 1, 2007, and shall remain avail12 able through September 30, 2008; 

13 ‘‘(2) $19,229,188,286 for fiscal year 2008, and 

14 there are hereby appropriated $8,646,227,746 for 

15 fiscal year 2008, which shall become available for 

16 obligation on July 1, 2008, and shall remain avail17 able through September 30, 2009; 

18 ‘‘(3) $21,519,458,857 for fiscal year 2009, and 

19 there are hereby appropriated $10,936,498,317 for 

20 fiscal year 2009, which shall become available for 

21 obligation on July 1, 2009, and shall remain avail22 able through September 30, 2010; 

23 ‘‘(4) $23,809,729,429 for fiscal year 2010, and 

24 there are hereby appropriated $13,226,768,889 for 

25 fiscal year 2010, which shall become available for 
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1 obligation on July 1, 2010, and shall remain avail2 able through September 30, 2011; 

3 ‘‘(5) $26,100,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, and 

4 there are hereby appropriated $15,517,039,460 for 

5 fiscal year 2011, which shall become available for 

6 obligation on July 1, 2011, and shall remain avail7 able through September 30, 2012; and 

8 ‘‘(6) an amount equal to the sum of the max9 imum amounts of the grants all States may receive 

10 under subsection (a)(2)(B) for fiscal year 2012 and 

11 each succeeding fiscal year, and, there are hereby 

12 appropriated for each such year an amount equal to 

13 the sum of the maximum amounts of the grants all 

14 States may receive under subsection (a)(2)(B) for 

15 the fiscal year for which the determination is made 

16 minus $10,582,960,540, which shall become avail17 able for obligation on July 1 of the fiscal year for 

18 which the determination is made and shall remain 

19 available through September 30 of the succeeding 

20 year.’’. 

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