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(1) a current profile of the employment and labor force statistics for
refugees who entered the United States under this title—
(A) during the 5 fiscal years immediately before the fiscal year
in which the report is submitted; and
(B) before that 5-year period and who have been significantly
and disproportionately dependent on welfare;
(2) a description of the extent to which refugees received each kind
of assistance and service under this subchapter during the 5 fiscal
years immediately before the fiscal year in which the report is submit-
ted;
(3) a description of the geographic locations of refugees;
(4) a summary of the results of the monitoring conducted under sec-
tion 13109(h) of this title for the fiscal year;
(5) a description of—
(A) the activities, expenditures, and policies of the Office of Ref-
ugee Resettlement under this subchapter;
(B) the activities of States, voluntary organizations, and spon-
sors of refugees under this subchapter; and
(C) plans of the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement
for improving refugee resettlement;
(6) evaluations of the extent to which—
(A) services provided under this subchapter are assisting refu-
gees in achieving economic self-sufficiency, ability in English, and
employment commensurate with their skills and abilities; and
(B) fraud, abuse, and mismanagement have been reported in
providing assistance or services;
(7) a description of the assistance provided under section 13108(e)
of this title;
(8) a summary of the locations and status of unaccompanied refugee
children admitted to the United States; and
(9) a summary of the information compiled and evaluated under sec-
tion 13109(i) of this title.
§ 13111.
Limitations
(a) CONSOLIDATED GRANTS PROHIBITED.—Amounts made available to a
State or political subdivision to carry out this subchapter (except section
13105(a) of this title) may not be in the form of a block grant, per capita
grant, or similar consolidated grant. Amounts shall be made available under
separate grants or contracts for—
(1) medical screening and initial medical treatment for refugees
under section 13105(d) of this title;
(2) service projects for refugees under section 13106(a) of this title;
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(3) targeted assistance project grants under section 13106(b) of this
title; and
(4) assistance for refugee children under section 13107(b) and (c)
of this title.
(b) CONTRACTS.—A contract made under this subchapter is effective only
to the extent and in the amount provided in advance by an appropriation
law.
§ 13112. Authorization of appropriations
Amounts necessary to carry out this subchapter and section 13901 of this
title may be appropriated for each of the fiscal years ending September 30,
1995, September 30, 1996, and September 30, 1997.
SUBCHAPTER II—EDUCATION ASSISTANCE
§ 13131. Definitions
In this subchapter—
(1) ‘‘elementary school’’, ‘‘local educational agency’’, ‘‘secondary
school’’, ‘‘State’’, and ‘‘State educational agency’’ have the same mean-
ings given those terms in section 14101 of the Elementary and Second-
ary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801).
(2) ‘‘elementary or secondary nonpublic school’’ means a school—
(A) complying with the compulsory education laws of the State
in which it is located; and
(B) exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Inter-
nal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3)).
(3) ‘‘eligible participant’’ means an alien—
(A) during the 36-month period that begins with the first month
the alien entered the United States, who—
(i) has been admitted to the United States as a refugee
under section 5105 of this title;
(ii) has been paroled into the United States as a refugee
under section 6123 of this title; or
(iii) has fled from the alien’s country of origin and, under
an executive order, has been allowed to enter and remain in
the United States indefinitely for humanitarian reasons;
(B) during the 36-month period that begins with the month the
alien began applying for asylum, who is applying for, or has been
granted, asylum in the United States; or
(C) during the 36-month period that begins with the first month
the alien entered the United States as a Cuban-Haitian entrant
or otherwise became a Cuban-Haitian entrant, who entered the
United States after October 31, 1979, and is in the United States
classified as a Cuban-Haitian entrant.
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§ 13132. Basic educational services grants
(a) GRANTS.—The Secretary of Education shall make a grant to each
State educational agency for each fiscal year to assist local educational
agencies of the State in providing basic educational services for eligible par-
ticipants enrolled in the elementary and secondary public schools under the
jurisdiction of the local educational agencies of the State. The State edu-
cational agency may use the grant only as provided in its application ap-
proved under section 13135(b) of this title.
(b) APPLICATIONS.—To receive a grant under this section, the State edu-
cational agency must submit an application to the Secretary. In the applica-
tion, the State educational agency must—
(1) agree that payments under the grant will be used as provided
in subsection (a) of this section;
(2) agree to ensure that those payments will be allocated among the
local educational agencies in the State using the same formula and re-
ductions for the local educational agencies as the Secretary is required
to use in making allocations to State educational agencies under sub-
section (d) of this section;
(3) specify the amounts referred to in subsection (d) of this section
that are made available under other laws of the United States for ex-
penditure in the State for the same purpose for which an amount is
made available under this section and the local educational agencies to which
those amounts are available; and
(4) comply with section 13135(a) of this title.
(c) PRESCRIBING GRANT FORMULA.—As soon as possible, the Secretary
shall prescribe a formula to be used in determining the amount of the grant
to which each State educational agency (except the agencies for American
Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of Palau, the
Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and
the Virgin Islands) is entitled under this section for a fiscal year. The for-
mula shall be based on the full amount authorized under section 13139(b)
of this title. In prescribing the formula, the Secretary—
(1) shall consider—
(A) the number of years each eligible participant assisted under
this section has resided in the United States; and
(B) the relative costs, by grade level, of educating elementary
and secondary school children; and
(2) shall provide that amounts be allocated without regard to dif-
ferences in educational costs among different geographical areas.
(d) ALLOCATIONS.—The Secretary shall allocate the amount appropriated
to carry out this section for a fiscal year among the State educational agen-