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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 551 

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

provide full Federal funding of such part. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 27, 2015 

Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself, Mr. MCKINLEY, Mr. WALZ, Mr. GIBSON, Mr. 

HUFFMAN, and Mr. REICHERT) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 

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’’. 

6 SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO IDEA. 

7 Section 611(i) of the Individuals with Disabilities 

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

9 as follows: 

10 ‘‘(i) FUNDING.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For the purpose of car2 rying out this part, other than section 619, there are 

3 authorized to be appropriated— 

4 ‘‘(A) $12,872,421,000 or 17.7 percent of 

5 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

6 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2016, and 

7 there are hereby appropriated $1,374,573,000 

8 or 1.6 percent of the amount determined under 

9 paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 

10 year 2016, which shall become available for ob11 ligation on July 1, 2016, and shall remain 

12 available through September 30, 2017; 

13 ‘‘(B) $14,411,326,000 or 19.4 percent of 

14 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

15 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2017, and 

16 there are hereby appropriated $2,913,478,000 

17 or 3.3 percent of the amount determined under 

18 paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 

19 year 2017, which shall become available for ob20 ligation on July 1, 2017, and shall remain 

21 available through September 30, 2018; 

22 ‘‘(C) $16,134,207,000 or 21.2 percent of 

23 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

24 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2018, and 

25 there are hereby appropriated $4,636,359,000 


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1 or 5.1 percent of the amount determined under 

2 paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 

3 year 2018, which shall become available for ob4 ligation on July 1, 2018, and shall remain 

5 available through September 30, 2019; 

6 ‘‘(D) $18,063,059,000 or 23.2 percent of 

7 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

8 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2019, and 

9 there are hereby appropriated $6,565,211,000 

10 or 7.1 percent of the amount determined under 

11 paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 

12 year 2019, which shall become available for ob13 ligation on July 1, 2019, and shall remain 

14 available through September 30, 2020; 

15 ‘‘(E) $20,222,507,000 or 25.4 percent of 

16 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

17 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2020, and 

18 there are hereby appropriated $8,724,659,000 

19 or 9.3 percent of the amount determined under 

20 paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 

21 year 2020, which shall become available for ob22 ligation on July 1, 2020, and shall remain 

23 available through September 30, 2021; 

24 ‘‘(F) $22,640,117,000 or 27.8 percent of 

25 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 


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1 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2021, and 

2 there are hereby appropriated $11,142,269,000 

3 or 11.7 percent of the amount determined 

4 under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 

5 fiscal year 2021, which shall become available 

6 for obligation on July 1, 2021, and shall remain 

7 available through September 30, 2022; 

8 ‘‘(G) $25,346,755,000 or 30.5 percent of 

9 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

10 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2022, and 

11 there are hereby appropriated $13,848,907,000 

12 or 14.4 percent of the amount determined 

13 under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 

14 fiscal year 2022, which shall become available 

15 for obligation on July 1, 2022, and shall remain 

16 available through September 30, 2023; 

17 ‘‘(H) $28,376,972,000 or 33.4 percent of 

18 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

19 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2023, and 

20 there are hereby appropriated $16,879,124,000 

21 or 17.3 percent of the amount determined 

22 under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 

23 fiscal year 2023, which shall become available 

24 for obligation on July 1, 2023, and shall remain 

25 available through September 30, 2024; 


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1 ‘‘(I) $31,769,453,000 or 36.5 percent of 

2 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

3 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2024, and 

4 there are hereby appropriated $20,271,605,000 

5 or 20.4 percent of the amount determined 

6 under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 

7 fiscal year 2024, which shall become available 

8 for obligation on July 1, 2024, and shall remain 

9 available through September 30, 2025; and 

10 ‘‘(J) $35,567,506,000 or 40 percent of the 

11 amount determined under paragraph (2), 

12 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2025 and 

13 each subsequent fiscal year, and there are here14 by appropriated $35,567,506,000 or 40 percent 

15 of the amount determined under paragraph (2), 

16 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2025 and 

17 each subsequent fiscal year, which— 

18 ‘‘(i) shall become available for obliga19 tion with respect to fiscal year 2025 on 

20 July 1, 2025, and shall remain available 

21 through September 30, 2026; and 

22 ‘‘(ii) shall become available for obliga23 tion with respect to each subsequent fiscal 

24 year on July 1 of that fiscal year and shall 


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1 remain available through September 30 of 

2 the succeeding fiscal year. 

3 ‘‘(2) AMOUNT.—With respect to each subpara4 graph of paragraph (1), the amount determined 

5 under this paragraph is the product of— 

6 ‘‘(A) the total number of children with dis7 abilities in all States who— 

8 ‘‘(i) received special education and re9 lated services during the last school year 

10 that concluded before the first day of the 

11 fiscal year for which the determination is 

12 made; and 

13 ‘‘(ii) were aged— 

14 ‘‘(I) 3 through 5 (with respect to 

15 the States that were eligible for 

16 grants under section 619); and 

17 ‘‘(II) 6 through 21; and 

18 ‘‘(B) the average per-pupil expenditure in 

19 public elementary schools and secondary schools 

20 in the United States.’’. 

21 SEC. 3. OFFSETS. 

22 The amounts appropriated in 611(i) of the Individ23 uals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411(i)), 


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1 as amended by section 2 of this Act, shall be expended 

2 consistent with pay-as-you-go requirements. 

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