I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2296 
To reauthorize the impact aid program under the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 6, 2013 
Mrs. NOEM (for herself and Mr. LARSEN of Washington) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
Workforce 
A BILL 
To reauthorize the impact aid program under the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965. 
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 ‘‘Local Taxpayer Relief 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. MAKING PERMANENT THE AMENDMENTS MADE BY 
THE IMPACT AID IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2012. 
Subsection (c) of the Impact Aid Improvement Act 
of 2012 (20 U.S.C. 6301 note) is amended— 
(1) by striking paragraphs (1) and (4); and 
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(2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively. 
SEC. 3. PURPOSE. 
Section 8001 (20 U.S.C. 7701) is amended, in the 
matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘challenging 
State standards’’ and inserting ‘‘college and career ready 
State academic content and student academic achievement 
standards under section 1111(a)(1)’’. 
SEC. 4. PAYMENTS RELATING TO FEDERAL ACQUISITION 
OF REAL PROPERTY. 
(a) AMENDMENTS.—Section 8002 of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7702) 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (f), by striking paragraphs (4) 
and (5); 
(2) by striking subsection (g) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(g) FORMER DISTRICTS.— 
‘‘(1) CONSOLIDATIONS.—For fiscal year 2006 
and all succeeding fiscal years, if a local educational 
agency described in paragraph (2) is formed at any 
time after 1938 by the consolidation of 2 or more 
former school districts, the local educational agency 
may elect to have the Secretary determine its eligi-
bility and any amount for which the local edu-
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cational agency is eligible under this section for any 
fiscal year on the basis of one or more of those 
former districts, as designated by the local edu-
cational agency. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE
LOCAL
EDUCATIONAL
AGEN-
CIES.—A local educational agency referred to in 
paragraph (1) is— 
‘‘(A) any local educational agency that, for 
fiscal year 1994 or any preceding fiscal year, 
applied, and was determined to be eligible 
under, section 2(c) of the Act of September 20, 
1950 (Public Law 874, 81st Congress), as that 
section was in effect for that fiscal year; or 
‘‘(B) a local educational agency formed by 
the consolidation of 2 or more districts, at least 
1 of which was eligible for assistance under this 
section for the fiscal year preceding the year of 
the consolidation, if— 
‘‘(i) for fiscal years 2006 through 
2013, the local educational had notified the 
Secretary of the designation not later than 
30 days after the date of enactment of the 
Local Taxpayer Relief Act; and 
‘‘(ii) for fiscal year 2014 and any sub-
sequent fiscal year, the local educational 
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