H. R. 244—411 
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS 
For carrying out school improvement activities authorized by 
part B of title I, part A of title II, subpart 1 of part A of title 
IV, part B of title IV, part B of title V, and parts B and C 
of title VI of the ESEA; the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act; section 203 of the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 
2002; the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003; 
and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, $4,408,567,000, of which 
$2,588,002,000 shall become available on July 1, 2017, and remain 
available through September 30, 2018, and of which $1,681,441,000 
shall become available on October 1, 2017, and shall remain avail-
able through September 30, 2018, for academic year 2017–2018: 
Provided, That $369,100,000 shall be for part B of title I: Provided 
further, That $1,191,673,000 shall be for part B of title IV: Provided 
further, That $33,397,000 shall be for part B of title VI and may 
be used for construction, renovation, and modernization of any 
elementary school, secondary school, or structure related to an 
elementary school or secondary school, run by the Department 
of Education of the State of Hawaii, that serves a predominantly 
Native Hawaiian student body: Provided further, That $32,453,000 
shall be for part C of title VI and shall be awarded on a competitive 
basis, and also may be used for construction: Provided further, 
That $50,000,000 shall be available to carry out section 203 of 
the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 and the Secretary 
shall make such arrangements as determined to be necessary to 
ensure that the Bureau of Indian Education has access to services 
provided under this section: Provided further, That $16,699,000 
shall be available to carry out the Supplemental Education Grants 
program for the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic 
of the Marshall Islands: Provided further, That the Secretary may 
reserve up to 5 percent of the amount referred to in the previous 
proviso to provide technical assistance in the implementation of 
these grants: Provided further, That $175,840,000 shall be for part 
B of title V: Provided further, That $400,000,000 shall be available 
for grants under subpart 1 of part A of title IV: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) of section 4105 of 
such Act, each State may use funds reserved under section 
4104(a)(1) of such Act to award subgrants, on a competitive basis, 
to local educational agencies receiving a grant under part A of 
title I, or consortia of such local educational agencies, of such 
Act, to enable the agencies or consortia to support activities author-
ized under one or more of sections 4107, 4108, and 4109(a) of 
such Act: Provided further, That each such subgrant shall be subject 
to the same terms and conditions as an allocation provided under 
section 4105 of such Act, except as otherwise provided in this 
Act: Provided further, That each State that awards such subgrants 
shall award such subgrants with priority given to local educational 
agencies, or consortia of local educational agencies, with the greatest 
need based on the number or percentage of children counted under 
section 1124(c), in a manner that ensures geographic diversity 
among subgrant recipients representing rural, suburban, and urban 
areas, and in a manner that distributes the total amount of funds 
available to the State under section 4104(a)(1) consistent with the 
requirements described in subparagraphs (C) through (E) of section 
4106(e)(2) of such Act: Provided further, That each such subgrant 
awarded shall be for a term of one year and in an amount of
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not less than $10,000, and a subgrant recipient shall not be subject 
to any of the distribution requirements described in subparagraphs 
(C) through (E) of subsections (e)(2) and (f), of section 4106 of 
such Act: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 4109(b) 
of such Act, a subgrant recipient using such subgrant funds to 
carry out only activities authorized under section 4109(a) of such 
Act may use not more than 25 percent of the subgrant funds 
for purchasing technology infrastructure as described in such section 
4109(b): Provided further, That amounts made available under this 
heading to a State agency awarding such subgrants shall remain 
available until September 30, 2018. 
INDIAN EDUCATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent not otherwise 
provided, title VI, part A of the ESEA, $164,939,000, of which 
$57,993,000 shall be for subpart 2 of part A of title VI and 
$6,565,000 shall be for subpart 3 of part A of title VI. 
INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT 
For carrying out activities authorized by subparts 1, 3 and 
4 of part B of title II, and parts C and D and subparts 1 and 
4 of part F of title IV of the ESEA, $887,575,000: Provided, That 
$283,015,000 shall be for subparts 1, 3 and 4 of part B of title 
II and shall be made available without regard to sections 2201, 
2231(b) and 2241: Provided further, That $504,560,000 shall be 
for parts C and D and subpart 4 of part F of title IV, and shall 
be made available without regard to sections 4311, 4409(a), and 
4601 of the ESEA: Provided further, That section 4303(d)(3)(A)(i) 
shall not apply to the funds available for part C of title IV: Provided 
further, That of the funds available for part C of title IV, the 
Secretary shall use not less than $26,000,000 to carry out section 
4304, of which not more than $10,000,000 shall be available to 
carry out section 4304(k), not more than $100,000,000 to carry 
out section 4305(b), and not less than $11,000,000 to carry out 
the activities in section 4305(a)(3): Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 4601(b), $100,000,000 shall be available through 
December 31, 2017 for subpart 1 of part F of title IV. 
SAFE SCHOOLS AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION 
For carrying out activities authorized by subparts 2 and 3 
of part F of title IV of the ESEA, $151,254,000: Provided, That 
$68,000,000 shall be available for section 4631, of which up to 
$5,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be for the 
Project School Emergency Response to Violence (‘‘Project SERV’’) 
program to provide education-related services to local educational 
agencies and institutions of higher education in which the learning 
environment has been disrupted due to a violent or traumatic 
crisis: Provided further, That $10,000,000 shall be available for 
section 4625: Provided further, That $73,254,000 shall be available 
through December 31, 2017, for section 4624: Provided further, 
That section 4623(b) of the ESEA shall apply to funds appropriated 
for Promise Neighborhoods under this heading in prior appropria-
tions acts.
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 
For carrying out part A of title III of the ESEA, $737,400,000, 
which shall become available on July 1, 2017, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2018, except that 6.5 percent 
of such amount shall be available on October 1, 2016, and shall 
remain available through September 30, 2018, to carry out activities 
under section 3111(c)(1)(C). 
SPECIAL EDUCATION 
For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities Education 
Act (IDEA) and the Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment 
Act of 2004, $13,064,358,000, of which $3,546,259,000 shall become 
available on July 1, 2017, and shall remain available through 
September 30, 2018, and of which $9,283,383,000 shall become 
available on October 1, 2017, and shall remain available through 
September 30, 2018, for academic year 2017–2018: Provided, That 
the amount for section 611(b)(2) of the IDEA shall be equal to 
the lesser of the amount available for that activity during fiscal 
year 2016, increased by the amount of inflation as specified in 
section 619(d)(2)(B) of the IDEA, or the percent change in the 
funds appropriated under section 611(i) of the IDEA, but not less 
than the amount for that activity during fiscal year 2016: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall, without regard to section 611(d) 
of the IDEA, distribute to all other States (as that term is defined 
in section 611(g)(2)), subject to the third proviso, any amount by 
which a State’s allocation under section 611, from funds appro-
priated under this heading, is reduced under section 612(a)(18)(B), 
according to the following: 85 percent on the basis of the States’ 
relative populations of children aged 3 through 21 who are of 
the same age as children with disabilities for whom the State 
ensures the availability of a free appropriate public education under 
this part, and 15 percent to States on the basis of the States’ 
relative populations of those children who are living in poverty: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may not distribute any funds 
under the previous proviso to any State whose reduction in alloca-
tion from funds appropriated under this heading made funds avail-
able for such a distribution: Provided further, That the States 
shall allocate such funds distributed under the second proviso to 
local educational agencies in accordance with section 611(f): Pro-
vided further, That the amount by which a State’s allocation under 
section 611(d) of the IDEA is reduced under section 612(a)(18)(B) 
and the amounts distributed to States under the previous provisos 
in fiscal year 2012 or any subsequent year shall not be considered 
in calculating the awards under section 611(d) for fiscal year 2013 
or for any subsequent fiscal years: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing the provision in section 612(a)(18)(B) regarding the fiscal 
year in which a State’s allocation under section 611(d) is reduced 
for failure to comply with the requirement of section 612(a)(18)(A), 
the Secretary may apply the reduction specified in section 
612(a)(18)(B) over a period of consecutive fiscal years, not to exceed 
five, until the entire reduction is applied: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may, in any fiscal year in which a State’s allocation 
under section 611 is reduced in accordance with section 
612(a)(18)(B), reduce the amount a State may reserve under section 
611(e)(1) by an amount that bears the same relation to the max-
imum amount described in that paragraph as the reduction under
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section 612(a)(18)(B) bears to the total allocation the State would 
have received in that fiscal year under section 611(d) in the absence 
of the reduction: Provided further, That the Secretary shall either 
reduce the allocation of funds under section 611 for any fiscal 
year following the fiscal year for which the State fails to comply 
with the requirement of section 612(a)(18)(A) as authorized by 
section 612(a)(18)(B), or seek to recover funds under section 452 
of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1234a): Provided 
further, That the funds reserved under 611(c) of the IDEA may 
be used to provide technical assistance to States to improve the 
capacity of the States to meet the data collection requirements 
of sections 616 and 618 and to administer and carry out other 
services and activities to improve data collection, coordination, 
quality, and use under parts B and C of the IDEA: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may use funds made available for the 
State Personnel Development Grants program under part D, sub-
part 1 of IDEA to evaluate program performance under such sub-
part. 
REHABILITATION SERVICES 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Helen Keller National Center 
Act, $3,535,589,000, of which $3,398,554,000 shall be for grants 
for vocational rehabilitation services under title I of the Rehabilita-
tion Act: Provided, That the Secretary may use amounts provided 
in this Act that remain available subsequent to the reallotment 
of funds to States pursuant to section 110(b) of the Rehabilitation 
Act for innovative activities aimed at improving the outcomes of 
individuals with disabilities as defined in section 7(20)(B) of the 
Rehabilitation Act, including activities aimed at improving the edu-
cation and post-school outcomes of children receiving Supplemental 
Security Income (‘‘SSI’’) and their families that may result in long- 
term improvement in the SSI child recipient’s economic status 
and self-sufficiency: Provided further, That States may award sub-
grants for a portion of the funds to other public and private, 
nonprofit entities: Provided further, That any funds made available 
subsequent to reallotment for innovative activities aimed at 
improving the outcomes of individuals with disabilities shall remain 
available until September 30, 2018. 
SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND 
For carrying out the Act to promote the Education of the 
Blind of March 3, 1879, $25,431,000. 
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF 
For the National Technical Institute for the Deaf under titles 
I and II of the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986, $70,016,000: 
Provided, That from the total amount available, the Institute may 
at its discretion use funds for the endowment program as authorized 
under section 207 of such Act.