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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1829
To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full
funding for assistance for education of all children with disabilities.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 15, 2001
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut (for himself, Mr. STUPAK, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr.
FILNER, Ms. LEE, Mr. HONDA, and Mr. WYNN) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Work-
force
A BILL
To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
to provide full funding for assistance for education of
all children with disabilities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Full Funding for
IDEA Now Act of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to attain the Federal Gov-
ernment’s goal under part B of the Individuals with Dis-
abilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411 et seq.) of pro-
viding 40 percent of the national current average per pupil
expenditure to assist States and local educational agencies
with the excess costs of educating children with disabilities
and to make such funding mandatory.
SEC. 3. AMOUNT OF GRANT FOR STATES UNDER PART B OF
THE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDU-
CATION ACT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 611(a) of the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411(a)) is
amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (4); and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(2) 
MINIMUM
AMOUNTS.—The 
minimum
amount of the grant a State is entitled to receive
under this section for a fiscal year is—
‘‘(A) the number of children with disabil-
ities in the State who are receiving special edu-
cation and related services—
‘‘(i) aged 3 through 5 if the State is
eligible for a grant under section 619; and
‘‘(ii) aged 6 through 21; multiplied by
‘‘(B) 40 percent of the average current
per-pupil expenditure in public elementary and
secondary schools in the United States.
‘‘(3) NO
INDIVIDUAL
ENTITLEMENT.—Para-
graph (2) shall not be interpreted to entitle any indi-
vidual to assistance under any State program,
project, or activity funded under this part.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(1) Section 611 of
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C.
1411) is amended by striking subsection (j).
(2) Section 611 of the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411), as amended by para-
graph (1), is further amended—
(A) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘From the
amount appropriated for any fiscal year under sub-
section (j), the Secretary shall reserve not more than
one percent, which shall be used’’ and inserting
‘‘From the amount available for any fiscal year to
carry out this part (other than section 619), the
Secretary shall use not more than one percent’’;
(B) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘From the
amount appropriated for any fiscal year under sub-
section (j), the Secretary shall reserve’’ and inserting
‘‘From the amount available for any fiscal year to
carry out this part (other than section 619), the
Secretary shall use’’;
(C) in subsection (d)—
(i) in paragraph (1)—
(I) by striking ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—’’;
and
(II) by striking ‘‘paragraph (2) or
subsection (e), as the case may be’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subsection (e)’’; and
(ii) by striking paragraph (2);
(D) in subsection (e)—
(i) in the heading, by striking ‘‘PERMA-
NENT’’;
(ii) in paragraph (1)—
(I) by striking ‘‘subsection (d)(1)’’
and inserting ‘‘subsection (d)’’; and
(II) by inserting after ‘‘subsection (j)’’
the following: ‘‘(as such subsection was in
effect on the day before the date of the en-
actment of the Mandatory IDEA Full
Funding Act of 2001)’’; and
(iii) in paragraph (3)(B)—
(I) in clause (ii)—
(aa) in subclause (I)(bb), by
striking ‘‘amount appropriated under
subsection (j)’’ and inserting ‘‘amount
available to carry out this part (other
than section 619)’’;
(bb) in subclause (II)(bb), by
striking ‘‘appropriated’’ and inserting
‘‘available’’; and
(cc) in subclause (III)(bb), by
striking ‘‘appropriated’’ and inserting
‘‘available’’; and
(II) in clause (iii)(II), by striking ‘‘ap-
propriated’’ and inserting ‘‘available’’;
(E) in subsection (g)—
(i) in paragraph (2)—
(I) by striking subparagraph (A);
(II) by striking ‘‘(B) PERMANENT
PROCEDURE.—’’;
(III) by redesignating clauses (i) and
(ii) and subclauses (I) and (II) as subpara-
graphs (A) and (B) and clauses (i) and
(ii), respectively; and
(IV) in subparagraph (B) (as redesig-
nated), by striking ‘‘clause (i)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’; and
(ii) in paragraph (3)(A)—