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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8472 
To provide that, due to the disruptions caused by COVID–19, applications 
for impact aid funding for fiscal year 2022 may use certain data sub-
mitted in the fiscal year 2021 application. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 1, 2020 
Mr. COURTNEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To provide that, due to the disruptions caused by COVID– 
19, applications for impact aid funding for fiscal year 
2022 may use certain data submitted in the fiscal year 
2021 application. 
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 ‘‘Impact Aid 
Coronavirus Relief Act’’. 
SEC. 2. IMPACT AID PROGRAM. 
Due to the public health emergency relating to 
COVID–19 and notwithstanding sections 7002(j) and 
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7003(c) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7702(j), 7703(c)), a local educational 
agency desiring to receive a payment under section 7002 
or 7003 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 7702, 7703) for fiscal 
year 2022 that also submitted an application for such pay-
ment for fiscal year 2021 shall, in the application sub-
mitted under section 7005 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 7705) 
for fiscal year 2022— 
(1) with respect to a requested payment under 
section 7002 of such Act— 
(A) use the data described in section 
7002(j) of such Act relating to calculating such 
payment that was submitted by the local edu-
cational agency in the application for fiscal year 
2021; or 
(B) use the data relating to calculating 
such payment for the fiscal year required under 
section 7002(j) of such Act; and 
(2) with respect to a requested payment under 
section 7003 of such Act— 
(A) use the student count data relating to 
calculating such payment that was submitted by 
the local educational agency in the application 
for fiscal year 2021, provided that payments for 
fiscal year 2022 shall be calculated by the Sec-
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retary using the expenditures and rates de-
scribed in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) of sec-
tion 7003(b)(1)(C) of such Act that would oth-
erwise apply for fiscal year 2022; or 
(B) use the student count data relating to 
calculating such payment for the fiscal year re-
quired under section 7003(c) of such Act. 
SEC. 3. MIGRANT EDUCATION PROGRAM. 
Due to the public health emergency relating to 
COVID–19 and notwithstanding subsections (a)(1) and 
(f)(1) of section 1303 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6393), for the purposes 
of making determinations under subsections (a)(1) and (f) 
of such section 1303 for fiscal year 2021 and all subse-
quent fiscal years for which school year 2019–2020 data 
would be used in the calculations under section 1303(a)(1) 
of such Act, the Secretary of Education shall use school 
year 2018–2019 data or school year 2019–2020 data, 
whichever data are greater, wherever school year 2019– 
2020 data would otherwise be required. 
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