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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 682 

To encourage local educational agencies to resume in-person instruction at 

elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 2, 2021 

Mrs. HINSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Education and Labor 

A BILL 

To encourage local educational agencies to resume in-person 

instruction at elementary and secondary schools, 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 ‘‘Reopen Schools Act’’. 

5 SEC. 2. GRANTS TO SUPPORT IN-PERSON INSTRUCTION. 

6 Subsection (c) of section 313 of the Coronavirus Re7 sponse and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 

8 (division M of Public Law 116–260) is amended to read 

9 as follows: 


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1 ‘‘(c) SUBGRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGEN2 CIES.— 

3 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—From the allocation pro4 vided by the Secretary under subsection (b), the 

5 State educational agency shall provide services and 

6 assistance to local educational agencies and non-pub7 lic schools, consistent with the provisions of this sec8 tion. Each State shall allocate not less than 90 per9 cent of the allocation awarded to the State under 

10 this section as subgrants to local educational agen11 cies (including charter schools that are local edu12 cational agencies) in the State in proportion to the 

13 amount of funds such local educational agencies and 

14 charter schools that are local educational agencies 

15 received under part A of title I of the Elementary 

16 and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 

17 6311 et seq.) in the most recent fiscal year. The 

18 State educational agency shall make such subgrants 

19 to local educational agencies as follows: 

20 ‘‘(A) One-third of funds shall be awarded 

21 not less than 15 calendar days after receiving 

22 an award from the Secretary under this section. 

23 ‘‘(B) The remaining two-thirds of funds 

24 shall be awarded only after the local educational 

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1 ernor approves a comprehensive school reopen2 ing plan based on criteria determined by the 

3 Governor in consultation with the State edu4 cational agency (including criteria for the Gov5 ernor to carry out paragraph (2)), that de6 scribes how the local educational agency will 

7 safely reopen schools with the physical presence 

8 of students, consistent with maintaining safe 

9 and continuous operations aligned with chal10 lenging State academic standards. 

11 ‘‘(2) APPROVAL OF PLANS.—The Governor 

12 shall approve plans submitted under paragraph 

13 (1)(B) within 30 days after the plan is submitted, 

14 subject to the following requirements: 

15 ‘‘(A) A local educational agency that pro16 vides in-person instruction for at least 50 per17 cent of its students where the students phys18 ically attend school no less than 50 percent of 

19 each school-week, as it was defined by the local 

20 educational agency prior to the coronavirus 

21 emergency, shall have its plan automatically ap22 proved. 

23 ‘‘(B) A local educational agency that does 

24 not provide in-person instruction to any stu25 dents where the students physically attend 


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1 school in-person shall not be eligible to receive 

2 a subgrant under paragraph (1)(B). 

3 ‘‘(C) A local educational agency that pro4 vides in-person instruction to at least some stu5 dents where the students physically attend 

6 school in-person but does not satisfy the re7 quirements in subparagraph (A) shall have its 

8 allocation reduced on a pro rata basis as deter9 mined by the Governor. 

10 ‘‘(3) PLAN CONTENTS.—A school reopening 

11 plan submitted to a Governor under paragraph 

12 (1)(B) shall include, in addition to any other infor13 mation necessary to meet the criteria determined by 

14 the Governor— 

15 ‘‘(A) a detailed timeline for when the local 

16 educational agency will provide in-person in17 struction, including the goals and criteria used 

18 for providing full time in-person instruction to 

19 all students; 

20 ‘‘(B) a description of how many days of in21 person instruction per calendar week the local 

22 educational agency plans to offer to students; 

23 and 

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1 person instruction as is safe and practicable, 

2 consistent with maintaining safe and continuous 

3 operations aligned with challenging State aca4 demic standards.’’. 

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