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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 8472 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 19, 2020 

Received 

AN ACT 

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. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Impact Aid 

3 Coronavirus Relief Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. IMPACT AID PROGRAM. 

5 Due to the public health emergency relating to 

6 COVID–19 and notwithstanding sections 7002(j) and 

7 7003(c) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 

8 of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7702(j), 7703(c)), a local educational 

9 agency desiring to receive a payment under section 7002 

10 or 7003 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 7702, 7703) for fiscal 

11 year 2022 that also submitted an application for such pay12 ment for fiscal year 2021 shall, in the application sub13 mitted under section 7005 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 7705) 

14 for fiscal year 2022— 

15 (1) with respect to a requested payment under 

16 section 7002 of such Act— 

17 (A) use the data described in section 

18 7002(j) of such Act relating to calculating such 

19 payment that was submitted by the local edu20 cational agency in the application for fiscal year 

21 2021; or 

22 (B) use the data relating to calculating 

23 such payment for the fiscal year required under 

24 section 7002(j) of such Act; and 

25 (2) with respect to a requested payment under 

26 section 7003 of such Act— 


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1 (A) use the student count data relating to 

2 calculating such payment that was submitted by 

3 the local educational agency in the application 

4 for fiscal year 2021, provided that payments for 

5 fiscal year 2022 shall be calculated by the Sec6 retary using the expenditures and rates de7 scribed in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) of sec8 tion 7003(b)(1)(C) of such Act that would oth9 erwise apply for fiscal year 2022; or 

10 (B) use the student count data relating to 

11 calculating such payment for the fiscal year re12 quired under section 7003(c) of such Act. 

13 SEC. 3. MIGRANT EDUCATION PROGRAM. 

14 Due to the public health emergency relating to 

15 COVID–19 and notwithstanding subsections (a)(1) and 

16 (f)(1) of section 1303 of the Elementary and Secondary 

17 Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6393), for the purposes 

18 of making determinations under subsections (a)(1) and (f) 

19 of such section 1303 for fiscal year 2021 and all subse20 quent fiscal years for which school year 2019–2020 data 

21 would be used in the calculations under section 1303(a)(1) 

22 of such Act, the Secretary of Education shall use school 

23 year 2018–2019 data or school year 2019–2020 data, 


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1 whichever data are greater, wherever school year 2019– 

2 2020 data would otherwise be required. 

Passed the House of Representatives October 2, 

2020. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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