IIB 

109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5354 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 23, 2006 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions 

AN ACT 

To authorize the Secretary of Education to extend the period 

during which a State educational agency or local educational agency may obligate temporary emergency impact aid for elementary and secondary school students 

displaced by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita, and 

for other purposes. 


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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 ‘‘Hurricane Relief Ex5 tension Act of 2006’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF PERIOD FOR OBLIGATION OF TEM7 PORARY EMERGENCY IMPACT AID FOR DIS8 PLACED STUDENTS. 

9 Notwithstanding sections 107(f) and 110 of title IV 

10 (commonly known as the ‘‘Hurricane Education Recovery 

11 Act’’) of Division B of the Department of Defense, Emer12 gency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurri13 canes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 

14 2006 (Public Law 109–148; 119 Stat. 2680), the Sec15 retary of Education may extend the period during which 

16 a State educational agency or local educational agency 

17 may obligate funds received under section 107 of that title, 

18 except that such funds shall be used only for expenses in19 curred during the 2005–2006 school year, as required by 

20 section 107 of that title. 

21 SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

22 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds as follows: 

23 (1) According to the Department of Education, 

24 more than 370,000 students were unable to attend 


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1 school in the weeks following hurricanes Katrina and 

2 Rita. 

3 (2) According to the Department of Education, 

4 158,000 students remained displaced as of October 

5 1, 2005, and are eligible for impact aid. 

6 (3) The unprecedented nature of this crisis and 

7 the massive dislocation of students prompted the 

8 Congress in 2005 to approve the Hurricane Edu9 cation Recovery Act to provide money to reopen 

10 schools in the Gulf Coast region and an additional 

11 $645 million for impact aid. 

12 (4) The Congress included stringent time lines 

13 in the Hurricane Education Recovery Act to ensure 

14 the money would quickly be sent to the local edu15 cational agencies to help the schools in need. 

16 (5) The Department of Education accelerated 

17 the application process in order to quickly release 

18 education-related relief. 

19 (6) A significant portion of the recovery aid, 

20 both restart and impact aid, has yet to reach dam21 aged schools and local educational agencies. 

22 (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—The Congress urges 

23 State educational agencies to expeditiously distribute edu24 cation relief funds received under title IV (commonly 

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1 vision B of the Department of Defense, Emergency Sup2 plemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the 

3 Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 (Public 

4 Law 109–148; 119 Stat. 2680)) to impacted schools and 

5 institutions. 

Passed the House of Representatives May 22, 2006. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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