I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6002 
To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a grant program for the 
construction of schools in overcrowded areas, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 5, 2018 
Mr. CROWLEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a grant 
program for the construction of schools in overcrowded 
areas, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘School Overcrowding 
Reduction Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than one year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Edu-
cation shall establish a program (in this section referred 
to as the ‘‘Program’’) under which the Secretary may 
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award grants, on a competitive basis, to qualifying local 
educational agencies in accordance with this section. 
(b) APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible for a grant under 
the Program, a qualifying local educational agency shall 
submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in 
such form, and containing such information as the Sec-
retary may require. 
(c) GRANT USES.—Grant amounts awarded to a 
qualifying local educational agency under the Program 
shall be used for activities relating to the construction of 
a school facility. 
(d) PRIORITY OF AWARD.—In selecting qualifying 
local educational agencies to receive a grant under the 
Program, the Secretary shall give priority to agencies that 
demonstrate that grant amounts received will be used to 
construct a school facility in a location that is no more 
than two miles from a school served by the agency in 
which the average class size (excluding special education 
classes exclusively serving children with disabilities as de-
fined in section 602 of the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1401)) exceeds 25 students. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out the Program 
$10,000,000,000 for fiscal years 2019 through 2023. 
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(f) QUALIFYING LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘qualifying local edu-
cational agency’’ means a local educational agency (as that 
term is defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)) 
that— 
(1) is a recipient of funds under title I of such 
Act (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.); and 
(2) has a service area with respect to which— 
(A) the aggregate average class size (ex-
cluding special education classes exclusively 
serving children with disabilities as defined in 
section 602 of the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1401)) exceeds 23 
students; or 
(B) more than 20 percent of students are 
assigned to a class with more than 30 students. 
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