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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 8664 

To provide funds to local educational agencies for personal protective 

equipment for educators and other staff, and students. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 23, 2020 

Mr. GARCI ́A of Illinois (for himself, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Mrs. WATSON

COLEMAN, Mr. MFUME, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mrs. BEATTY, Ms. JACKSON

LEE, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. TAKANO, 

Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. SOTO, Mr. GONZALEZ of Texas, Mr. BISHOP

of Georgia, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. SAN NICOLAS, Mr. 

ESPAILLAT, Ms. JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. POCAN, Mr. VELA, Mr. DANNY

K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. VELA ́ZQUEZ, Mr. SUOZZI, 

Ms. LEE of California, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. FUDGE, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mr. 

LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. ESCOBAR, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. 

CICILLINE, and Mr. SMITH of Washington) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 

A BILL 

To provide funds to local educational agencies for personal 

protective equipment for educators and other staff, and 

students. 

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 ‘‘PPE for Safe Schools 

5 Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PPE FOR SCHOOLS. 

2 (a) GRANTS TO STATES.— 

3 (1) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.— 

4 (A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Edu5 cation, in consultation with the Secretary of 

6 Health and Human Services, shall make grants 

7 in the amount described in subparagraph (A) to 

8 each State educational agency with an approved 

9 application. 

10 (B) GRANT AMOUNTS.—The amount of 

11 each grant under subparagraph (A) shall be al12 located by the Secretary to each State edu13 cational agency in the same proportion as the 

14 State educational agency received under part A 

15 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary 

16 Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et 

17 seq.) for the most recent fiscal year. 

18 (2) APPLICATIONS.— 

19 (A) APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS.—To re20 ceive a grant under this section, a State edu21 cational agency shall submit to the Secretary an 

22 application at such time, in such manner, and 

23 containing such information as the Secretary 

24 may reasonably require. 

25 (B) SECRETARIAL NOTIFICATIONS.— 


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1 (i) INVITING APPLICATIONS.—The 

2 Secretary shall issue a notice inviting ap3 plications not later than 30 days after the 

4 date of enactment of this Act. 

5 (ii) APPROVAL OR DENIAL.—The Sec6 retary shall approve or deny an application 

7 for a grant under this section not later 

8 than 30 days after receipt of the applica9 tion. 

10 (3) USES OF FUNDS.—A State educational that 

11 receives a grant under this Act— 

12 (A) shall use to not less than 98 percent 

13 of the grant to award subgrants to local edu14 cational agencies in the State in proportion to 

15 the amount of funds each such local educational 

16 agency received under part A of title I of the 

17 Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 

18 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) for the most re19 cent fiscal year; and 

20 (B) may reserve up to 2 percent for ad21 ministrative costs and emergency needs with re22 spect to COVID–19, as determined by the State 

23 educational agency. 

24 (b) SUBGRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGEN25 CIES.— 


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1 (1) APPLICATIONS.—To receive a subgrant 

2 under this section, a local educational agency shall 

3 submit an application to the appropriate State edu4 cational agency at such time, in such manner, and 

5 containing such information as the State educational 

6 agency may require. 

7 (2) USES OF FUNDS.—A local educational agen8 cy that receives a subgrant under this section shall 

9 use the subgrant for one or more of the following: 

10 (A) Purchasing supplies to sanitize and 

11 clean the facilities of, and the buses used by, 

12 the elementary schools and secondary schools 

13 served by such local educational agency. 

14 (B) Purchasing personal protective equip15 ment for educators and other staff, and stu16 dents. 

17 (C) Providing training on the use of the 

18 equipment and supplies described in subpara19 graphs (A) and (B). 

20 (D) Hiring additional support staff for the 

21 cleaning and sanitization described in subpara22 graph (A). 

23 (c) REPORTING.—Not later than 90 days after the 

24 date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 

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1 sions of the Senate, the Committee on Appropriations of 

2 the Senate, the Committee on Education and Labor of the 

3 House of Representatives, and the Committee on Appro4 priations of the House of Representatives a report that 

5 includes— 

6 (1) the amount of each grant awarded under 

7 this Act, and the State educational agency receiving 

8 the grant; and 

9 (2) the percentage of students benefitting from 

10 funds awarded under this Act who are eligible for 

11 free or reduced price lunch under the Richard B. 

12 Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 

13 et seq.). 

14 (d) FUNDING.—There is appropriated, out of 

15 amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 

16 $17,000,000,000, to remain available through fiscal year 

17 2021, to make grants under this section. 

18 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act, the terms ‘‘elemen19 tary school’’, ‘‘local educational agency’’, ‘‘secondary 

20 school’’, ‘‘Secretary’’, ‘‘State’’, and ‘‘State educational 

21 agency’’ have the meanings given the terms in section 

22 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 

23 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 

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