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[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8472 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                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.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 1, 2020

 Mr. Courtney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL

 
      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.

    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.
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