I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 682 
To encourage local educational agencies to resume in-person instruction at 
elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 2, 2021 
Mrs. HINSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To encourage local educational agencies to resume in-person 
instruction at elementary and secondary schools, 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 ‘‘Reopen Schools Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANTS TO SUPPORT IN-PERSON INSTRUCTION. 
Subsection (c) of section 313 of the Coronavirus Re-
sponse and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 
(division M of Public Law 116–260) is amended to read 
as follows: 
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‘‘(c) SUBGRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGEN-
CIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—From the allocation pro-
vided by the Secretary under subsection (b), the 
State educational agency shall provide services and 
assistance to local educational agencies and non-pub-
lic schools, consistent with the provisions of this sec-
tion. Each State shall allocate not less than 90 per-
cent of the allocation awarded to the State under 
this section as subgrants to local educational agen-
cies (including charter schools that are local edu-
cational agencies) in the State in proportion to the 
amount of funds such local educational agencies and 
charter schools that are local educational agencies 
received under part A of title I of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
6311 et seq.) in the most recent fiscal year. The 
State educational agency shall make such subgrants 
to local educational agencies as follows: 
‘‘(A) One-third of funds shall be awarded 
not less than 15 calendar days after receiving 
an award from the Secretary under this section. 
‘‘(B) The remaining two-thirds of funds 
shall be awarded only after the local educational 
agency submits to the Governor and the Gov-
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ernor approves a comprehensive school reopen-
ing plan based on criteria determined by the 
Governor in consultation with the State edu-
cational agency (including criteria for the Gov-
ernor to carry out paragraph (2)), that de-
scribes how the local educational agency will 
safely reopen schools with the physical presence 
of students, consistent with maintaining safe 
and continuous operations aligned with chal-
lenging State academic standards. 
‘‘(2) APPROVAL
OF
PLANS.—The Governor 
shall approve plans submitted under paragraph 
(1)(B) within 30 days after the plan is submitted, 
subject to the following requirements: 
‘‘(A) A local educational agency that pro-
vides in-person instruction for at least 50 per-
cent of its students where the students phys-
ically attend school no less than 50 percent of 
each school-week, as it was defined by the local 
educational agency prior to the coronavirus 
emergency, shall have its plan automatically ap-
proved. 
‘‘(B) A local educational agency that does 
not provide in-person instruction to any stu-
dents where the students physically attend 
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school in-person shall not be eligible to receive 
a subgrant under paragraph (1)(B). 
‘‘(C) A local educational agency that pro-
vides in-person instruction to at least some stu-
dents where the students physically attend 
school in-person but does not satisfy the re-
quirements in subparagraph (A) shall have its 
allocation reduced on a pro rata basis as deter-
mined by the Governor. 
‘‘(3) PLAN
CONTENTS.—A school reopening 
plan submitted to a Governor under paragraph 
(1)(B) shall include, in addition to any other infor-
mation necessary to meet the criteria determined by 
the Governor— 
‘‘(A) a detailed timeline for when the local 
educational agency will provide in-person in-
struction, including the goals and criteria used 
for providing full time in-person instruction to 
all students; 
‘‘(B) a description of how many days of in- 
person instruction per calendar week the local 
educational agency plans to offer to students; 
and 
‘‘(C) an assurance that the local edu-
cational agency will offer students as much in- 
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person instruction as is safe and practicable, 
consistent with maintaining safe and continuous 
operations aligned with challenging State aca-
demic standards.’’. 
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