I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3578 
To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to 
provide full Federal funding of such part. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 
Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself, Mr. PLATTS, and Mr. WALZ) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part. 
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 ‘‘Everyone Deserves Un-
conditional Access to Education (EDUCATE) Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO IDEA. 
Section 611(i) of the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411(i)) is amended to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(i) FUNDING.— 
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‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—For the purpose of car-
rying out this part, other than section 619, there are 
authorized to be appropriated— 
‘‘(A) $14,434,200,000 or 20.8 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2010, and 
there are hereby appropriated $2,928,989,000 
or 3.3 percent of the amount determined under 
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
year 2010, which shall become available for ob-
ligation on July 1, 2010, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2011; 
‘‘(B) $17,596,785,000 or 25 percent of the 
amount 
determined 
under 
paragraph 
(2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2011, and 
there are hereby appropriated $6,091,574,000 
or 7.5 percent of the amount determined under 
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
year 2011, which shall become available for ob-
ligation on July 1, 2011, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2012; 
‘‘(C) $20,759,369,000 or 29 percent of the 
amount 
determined 
under 
paragraph 
(2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2012, and 
there are hereby appropriated $9,254,158,000 
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or 11.5 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 
fiscal year 2012, which shall become available 
for obligation on July 1, 2012, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2013; 
‘‘(D) $23,921,954,000 or 32.9 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2013, and 
there are hereby appropriated $12,416,743,000 
or 15.4 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 
fiscal year 2013, which shall become available 
for obligation on July 1, 2013, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2014; 
‘‘(E) $27,084,538,000 or 36.5 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2014, and 
there are hereby appropriated $15,579,327,000 
or 19 percent of the amount determined under 
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
year 2014, which shall become available for ob-
ligation on July 1, 2014, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2015; 
‘‘(F) $30,247,123,000 or 40 percent of the 
amount determined 
under 
paragraph 
(2), 
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whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2015, and 
there are hereby appropriated $18,741,912,000 
or 22.5 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 
fiscal year 2015, which shall become available 
for obligation on July 1, 2015, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2016; and 
‘‘(G) 40 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2) for fiscal year 2016 and 
each subsequent fiscal year, and there are here-
by appropriated 40 percent of the amount de-
termined 
under 
paragraph 
(2) 
minus 
$11,505,211,000 for fiscal year 2016 and each 
subsequent fiscal year, which shall become 
available for obligation with respect to fiscal 
year 2016 on July 1, 2016, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2017, and 
with respect to each subsequent fiscal year on 
July 1 of that fiscal year and shall remain 
available through September 30 of the suc-
ceeding fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) AMOUNT.—The amount determined under 
this paragraph is— 
‘‘(A) the number of children with disabil-
ities in the school year preceding the fiscal year 
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referred to in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), 
(E), (F), or (G) of paragraph (1) (as the case 
may be) in all States who receive special edu-
cation and related services— 
‘‘(i) aged 3 through 5 if the States 
are eligible for grants under section 619, 
and 
‘‘(ii) aged 6 through 21, multiplied by 
‘‘(B) the average per-pupil expenditure in 
public elementary schools and secondary schools 
in the United States.’’. 
SEC. 3. OFFSETS. 
The amounts appropriated in 611(i) of the Individ-
uals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411(i)), 
as amended by section 2 of this Act, shall be expended 
consistent with pay-as-you-go requirements 
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