IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1140 
Recognizing and celebrating the 70th anniversary of Impact Aid on September 
30, 2020. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 
Mr. NEWHOUSE (for himself and Mr. LEVIN of California) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
Labor 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing and celebrating the 70th anniversary of Impact 
Aid on September 30, 2020. 
Whereas September 30, 2020, marks the 70th anniversary of 
the date on which President Harry S Truman signed 
Public Law 81–874, which enacted the Impact Aid pro-
gram into law; 
Whereas the Impact Aid program is considered by the com-
munity it serves as the ‘‘original’’ Federal elementary 
and secondary education program, and is administered by 
the Secretary of Education; 
Whereas Impact Aid reimburses local educational agencies for 
the loss of revenue and additional costs associated with 
the presence of tax-exempt Federal property; 
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•HRES 1140 IH 
Whereas Impact Aid payments are dispersed directly to local 
educational agencies, which allocate the resources based 
on local context and needs to provide a quality education 
to the students they serve; 
Whereas nearly 880,000 children of our men and women in 
uniform, children residing on Indian lands, children in 
low-rent public housing, and children of civilians working 
or living on Federal land are ‘‘federally connected chil-
dren’’ who are served by local educational agencies that 
are eligible for Impact Aid Basic Support Payments in 
2020; 
Whereas there are 4,800,000 federally owned acres in local 
educational agencies that are eligible for Impact Aid Fed-
eral Property payments, with Federal land making up a 
quarter or more of the overall property in nearly one- 
third of these agencies; 
Whereas, in 2020, 1,159 local educational agencies enrolling 
over 10,000,000 students will receive $1,486,112,000; 
Whereas the Impact Aid statute (Public Law 81–874) was 
the vehicle used by Congress in 1965 to pass the Elemen-
tary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; 
Whereas Congress has continued to demonstrate its support 
for Impact Aid by reauthorizing the program 16 times 
during the period between 1950 and 2020; 
Whereas the House Impact Aid Coalition was established in 
1995 and the Senate Impact Aid Coalition was estab-
lished in 1996 to formalize and energize the broad, bipar-
tisan support for the Impact Aid program; and 
Whereas the Federal obligation upon which the Impact Aid 
program is based is today the same as it was 70 years 
ago: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes and celebrates the 70th anniver-
sary of the enactment of the Impact Aid program 
(Public Law 81–874), the original Federal elemen-
tary and secondary education program, as ‘‘Impact 
Aid Recognition Day’’; and 
(2) recognizes the importance of the Impact Aid 
program under title VIII of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7701 et 
seq.) in ensuring that all children educated in feder-
ally impacted local educational agencies receive a 
high-quality education and have access to the oppor-
tunities they need to reach their full potential. 
Æ 
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