SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Fa-
cilities Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—GRANTS FOR MODERNIZATION, RENOVATION, OR 
REPAIR OF PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES 
Sec. 101. Purpose. 
Sec. 102. Allocation of funds. 
Sec. 103. Allowable uses of funds. 
Sec. 104. Priority projects. 
TITLE II—SUPPLEMENTAL GRANTS FOR LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, 
AND ALABAMA 
Sec. 201. Purpose. 
Sec. 202. Allocation to local educational agencies. 
Sec. 203. Allowable uses of funds. 
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 301. Impermissible uses of funds. 
Sec. 302. Supplement, not supplant. 
Sec. 303. Prohibition regarding State aid. 
Sec. 304. Maintenance of effort. 
Sec. 305. Special rule on contracting. 
Sec. 306. Use of American iron, steel, and manufactured goods. 
Sec. 307. Labor standards. 
Sec. 308. Charter schools. 
Sec. 309. Green schools. 
Sec. 310. Reporting. 
Sec. 311. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 312. Special rules. 
Sec. 313. Youthbuild programs. 
Sec. 314. Evaluation. 
Sec. 315. Advisory Council on Green, High-Performing Schools. 
Sec. 316. Job Corps. 
Sec. 317. Junior and community college students. 
Sec. 318. GAO study. 
Sec. 319. Education regarding projects. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act:
(1) The term ‘‘Bureau-funded school’’ has the 
meaning given to such term in section 1141 of the 
Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021). 
(2) The term ‘‘charter school’’ has the meaning 
given such term in section 5210 of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
7221). 
(3) The term ‘‘CHPS Criteria’’ means the 
green building rating program developed by the Col-
laborative for High Performance Schools. 
(4) The term ‘‘Energy Star’’ means the Energy 
Star program of the United States Department of 
Energy and the United States Environmental Pro-
tection Agency. 
(5) The term ‘‘Green Globes’’ means the Green 
Building Initiative environmental design and rating 
system referred to as Green Globes. 
(6) The term ‘‘LEED Green Building Rating 
System’’ means the United States Green Building 
Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental 
Design green building rating standard referred to as 
LEED Green Building Rating System. 
(7) The term ‘‘local educational agency’’— 
(A) has the meaning given to that term in 
section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801), and 
shall also include the Recovery School District 
of Louisiana and the New Orleans Public 
Schools; and 
(B) includes any public charter school that 
constitutes a local educational agency under 
State law. 
(8) The term ‘‘outlying area’’— 
(A) means the United States Virgin Is-
lands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; 
and 
(B) includes the freely associated states of 
the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Fed-
erated States of Micronesia, and the Republic 
of Palau. 
(9) The term ‘‘public school facilities’’ means 
an existing public school facility, including a public 
charter school facility, or another existing facility 
planned for adaptive reuse as such a school facility. 
(10) The term ‘‘State’’ means each of the 50 
States, the District of Columbia, and the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico.
TITLE 
I—GRANTS 
FOR 
MOD-
ERNIZATION, 
RENOVATION, 
OR 
REPAIR 
OF 
PUBLIC 
SCHOOL FACILITIES 
SEC. 101. PURPOSE. 
Grants under this title shall be for the purpose of 
modernizing, renovating, or repairing public school facili-
ties, based on their need for such improvements, to be 
safe, healthy, high-performing, and up-to-date techno-
logically. 
SEC. 102. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS. 
(a) RESERVATION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—From the amount appro-
priated to carry out this title for each fiscal year 
pursuant to section 311(a), the Secretary shall re-
serve 2 percent of such amount, consistent with the 
purpose described in section 101— 
(A) to provide assistance to the outlying 
areas; and 
(B) for payments to the Secretary of the 
Interior to provide assistance to Bureau-funded 
schools. 
(2) USE OF RESERVED FUNDS.—In each fiscal 
year, the amount reserved under paragraph (1) shall 
be divided between the uses described in subpara-
graphs (A) and (B) of such paragraph in the same 
proportion as the amount reserved under section 
1121(a) of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6331(a)) is divided 
between the uses described in paragraphs (1) and 
(2) of such section 1121(a) in such fiscal year. 
(3) DISTRESSED AREAS AND NATURAL DISAS-
TERS.—From the amount appropriated to carry out 
this title for each fiscal year pursuant to section 
311(a), the Secretary shall reserve 5 percent of such 
amount for grants to— 
(A) local educational agencies serving geo-
graphic areas with significant economic distress, 
to be used consistent with the purpose de-
scribed in section 101 and the allowable uses of 
funds described in section 103; and 
(B) local educational agencies serving geo-
graphic areas recovering from a natural dis-
aster, to be used consistent with the purpose 
described in section 201 and the allowable uses 
of funds described in section 203. 
(b) ALLOCATION TO STATES.— 
(1) STATE-BY-STATE
ALLOCATION.—Of the 
amount appropriated to carry out this title for each 
fiscal year pursuant to section 311(a), and not re-