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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2437 

To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide parity 

for outlying areas, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 1, 2019 

Mr. SAN NICOLAS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Education and Labor 

A BILL 

To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 

to provide parity for outlying areas, and for other purposes. 

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 Parity for Out5 lying Areas Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE FOR EDUCATION OF ALL CHILDREN 

7 WITH DISABILITIES. 

8 (a) AUTHORIZATION; ALLOTMENT; USE OF FUNDS; 

9 AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 611 of 


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1 the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 

2 1411) is amended— 

3 (1) in subsection (b)(1)— 

4 (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘not 

5 more than 1 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘not less 

6 than 1 percent’’; and 

7 (B) by striking subparagraph (B), and re8 designating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph 

9 (B); and 

10 (2) in subsection (e)(1)(A)(ii), by striking ‘‘or 

11 $35,000, whichever is greater’’. 

12 (b) PRESCHOOL GRANTS.—Section 619 of the Indi13 viduals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1419) 

14 is amended— 

15 (1) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ‘‘The Sec16 retary shall allocate the amount’’ and inserting 

17 ‘‘After reserving funds for payments to the outlying 

18 areas under subsection (h)(1) for a fiscal year, the 

19 Secretary shall allocate the remaining amount’’; 

20 (2) by redesignating subsections (h), (i), and (j) 

21 as subsections (i), (j), and (k), respectively; and 

22 (3) by inserting after subsection (g) the fol23 lowing new subsection: 

24 ‘‘(h) OUTLYING AREAS.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) FUNDS RESERVED.—From the amount ap2 propriated under subsection (k) for each fiscal year 

3 beginning after the date of enactment of the IDEA 

4 Parity for Outlying Areas Act, the Secretary shall 

5 reserve not less than 1 percent, which shall be used 

6 to provide assistance to the outlying areas in accord7 ance with their respective populations of children 

8 aged 3 through 5 and their relative populations of 

9 all children aged 3 through 5 who are living in pov10 erty, in accordance with this section. 

11 ‘‘(2) FIRST AWARD YEAR.—For the first fiscal 

12 year the Secretary provides assistance to outlying 

13 areas under this section, subsection (c)(2)(B)(iii) 

14 shall not apply to outlying areas. 

15 ‘‘(3) APPLICATION OF RESERVATION FOR

16 STATE ACTIVITIES.—Subsection (d) shall be applied 

17 to outlying areas by substituting ‘for the first fiscal 

18 year beginning after the date of enactment of the 

19 IDEA Parity for Outlying Areas Act’ for ‘for fiscal 

20 year 1997’. 

21 ‘‘(4) DEFINITION.—For each fiscal year begin22 ning after the date of enactment of the IDEA Parity 

23 for Outlying Areas Act, each use of the term ‘State’ 

24 in this section shall be deemed to refer to a State 


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1 or outlying area, as appropriate to carry out this 

2 subsection.’’. 

3 SEC. 3. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS FOR INFANTS AND TOD4 DLERS WITH DISABILITIES. 

5 Section 643(a) of the Individuals with Disabilities 

6 Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1443(a)) is amended— 

7 (1) by striking ‘‘AREAS.—’’ and all that follows 

8 through ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—From’’ and inserting 

9 ‘‘AREAS.—From’’; 

10 (2) by striking ‘‘not more than 1 percent’’ and 

11 inserting ‘‘not less than 1 percent’’; and 

12 (3) by striking paragraph (2). 

13 SEC. 4. STATE PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS. 

14 (a) PURPOSE; DEFINITION OF PERSONNEL; PRO15 GRAM AUTHORITY.—Section 651 of the Individuals with 

16 Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1451) is amended— 

17 (1) in subsection (c)(3), by striking ‘‘$80,000’’ 

18 and inserting ‘‘$160,000’’; and 

19 (2) in subsection (d)(3), by striking ‘‘$80,000’’ 

20 and inserting ‘‘$160,000’’. 

21 (b) USE OF FUNDS.—Section 654 of the Individuals 

22 with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1454) is 

23 amended by striking subsection (e). 

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