II 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1159 

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

provide full Federal funding of such part. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 19, 2007 

Mr. HAGEL (for himself, Mr. HARKIN, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. COLEMAN, Mr. WARNER, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. DODD, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. LIEBERMAN, and Mrs. MURRAY) introduced 

the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 

on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

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. AMENDMENTS 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: 

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1 ‘‘(i) FUNDING.—For the purpose of carrying out this 

2 part, other than section 619, there are authorized to be 

3 appropriated— 

4 ‘‘(1) $12,144,803,000 for fiscal year 2008, and 

5 there are hereby appropriated $1,361,842,000 for 

6 fiscal year 2008, which shall become available for 

7 obligation on July 1, 2008, and shall remain avail8 able through September 30, 2009; 

9 ‘‘(2) $13,987,521,000 for fiscal year 2009, and 

10 there are hereby appropriated $3,204,560,000 for 

11 fiscal year 2009, which shall become available for 

12 obligation on July 1, 2009, and shall remain avail13 able through September 30, 2010; 

14 ‘‘(3) $15,957,362,000 for fiscal year 2010, and 

15 there are hereby appropriated $5,174,401,000 for 

16 fiscal year 2010, which shall become available for 

17 obligation on July 1, 2010, and shall remain avail18 able through September 30, 2011; 

19 ‘‘(4) $18,292,338,000 for fiscal year 2011, and 

20 there are hereby appropriated $7,509,377,000 for 

21 fiscal year 2011, which shall become available for 

22 obligation on July 1, 2011, and shall remain avail23 able through September 30, 2012; 

24 ‘‘(5) $20,848,085,000 for fiscal year 2012, and 

25 there are hereby appropriated $10,065,124,000 for 

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1 fiscal year 2012, which shall become available for 

2 obligation on July 1, 2012, and shall remain avail3 able through September 30, 2013; 

4 ‘‘(6) $23,772,812,000 for fiscal year 2013, and 

5 there are hereby appropriated $12,989,851,000 for 

6 fiscal year 2013, which shall become available for 

7 obligation on July 1, 2013, and shall remain avail8 able through September 30, 2014; 

9 ‘‘(7) $27,075,420,000 for fiscal year 2014, and 

10 there are hereby appropriated $16,292,459,000 for 

11 fiscal year 2014, which shall become available for 

12 obligation on July 1, 2014, and shall remain avail13 able through September 30, 2015; 

14 ‘‘(8) $30,837,945,000 for fiscal year 2015, and 

15 there are hereby appropriated $20,054,984,000 for 

16 fiscal year 2015, which shall become available for 

17 obligation on July 1, 2015, and shall remain avail18 able through September 30, 2016; and 

19 ‘‘(9) an amount equal to the sum of the max20 imum amounts of the grants all States may receive 

21 under subsection (a)(2)(B) for fiscal year 2016 and 

22 each succeeding fiscal year, and, there are hereby 

23 appropriated for each such year an amount equal to 

24 the sum of the maximum amounts of the grants all 

25 States may receive under subsection (a)(2)(B) for 

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1 the fiscal year for which the determination is made 

2 minus $10,782,961,000, which shall become avail3 able for obligation on July 1 of the fiscal year for 

4 which the determination is made and shall remain 

5 available through September 30 of the succeeding 

6 year.’’. 

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