I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 551 
To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to 
provide full Federal funding of such part. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 27, 2015 
Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself, Mr. MCKINLEY, Mr. WALZ, Mr. GIBSON, Mr. 
HUFFMAN, and Mr. REICHERT) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 
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 ‘‘IDEA Full Funding 
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) $12,872,421,000 or 17.7 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2016, and 
there are hereby appropriated $1,374,573,000 
or 1.6 percent of the amount determined under 
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
year 2016, which shall become available for ob-
ligation on July 1, 2016, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2017; 
‘‘(B) $14,411,326,000 or 19.4 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2017, and 
there are hereby appropriated $2,913,478,000 
or 3.3 percent of the amount determined under 
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
year 2017, which shall become available for ob-
ligation on July 1, 2017, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2018; 
‘‘(C) $16,134,207,000 or 21.2 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2018, and 
there are hereby appropriated $4,636,359,000 
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or 5.1 percent of the amount determined under 
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
year 2018, which shall become available for ob-
ligation on July 1, 2018, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2019; 
‘‘(D) $18,063,059,000 or 23.2 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2019, and 
there are hereby appropriated $6,565,211,000 
or 7.1 percent of the amount determined under 
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
year 2019, which shall become available for ob-
ligation on July 1, 2019, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2020; 
‘‘(E) $20,222,507,000 or 25.4 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2020, and 
there are hereby appropriated $8,724,659,000 
or 9.3 percent of the amount determined under 
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
year 2020, which shall become available for ob-
ligation on July 1, 2020, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2021; 
‘‘(F) $22,640,117,000 or 27.8 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
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whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2021, and 
there are hereby appropriated $11,142,269,000 
or 11.7 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 
fiscal year 2021, which shall become available 
for obligation on July 1, 2021, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2022; 
‘‘(G) $25,346,755,000 or 30.5 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2022, and 
there are hereby appropriated $13,848,907,000 
or 14.4 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 
fiscal year 2022, which shall become available 
for obligation on July 1, 2022, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2023; 
‘‘(H) $28,376,972,000 or 33.4 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2023, and 
there are hereby appropriated $16,879,124,000 
or 17.3 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 
fiscal year 2023, which shall become available 
for obligation on July 1, 2023, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2024; 
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‘‘(I) $31,769,453,000 or 36.5 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2024, and 
there are hereby appropriated $20,271,605,000 
or 20.4 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 
fiscal year 2024, which shall become available 
for obligation on July 1, 2024, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2025; and 
‘‘(J) $35,567,506,000 or 40 percent of the 
amount determined 
under 
paragraph 
(2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2025 and 
each subsequent fiscal year, and there are here-
by appropriated $35,567,506,000 or 40 percent 
of the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2025 and 
each subsequent fiscal year, which— 
‘‘(i) shall become available for obliga-
tion with respect to fiscal year 2025 on 
July 1, 2025, and shall remain available 
through September 30, 2026; and 
‘‘(ii) shall become available for obliga-
tion with respect to each subsequent fiscal 
year on July 1 of that fiscal year and shall 
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remain available through September 30 of 
the succeeding fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) AMOUNT.—With respect to each subpara-
graph of paragraph (1), the amount determined 
under this paragraph is the product of— 
‘‘(A) the total number of children with dis-
abilities in all States who— 
‘‘(i) received special education and re-
lated services during the last school year 
that concluded before the first day of the 
fiscal year for which the determination is 
made; and 
‘‘(ii) were aged— 
‘‘(I) 3 through 5 (with respect to 
the States that were eligible for 
grants under section 619); and 
‘‘(II) 6 through 21; and 
‘‘(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)), 
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