I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1564
To provide for the full funding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education 
Act and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 2, 2003
Mr. ALLEN (for himself and Mr. MICHAUD) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition 
to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for the full funding of the Individuals with Dis-
abilities Education Act and the No Child Left Behind 
Act of 2001, 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 ‘‘Local Property Tax 
Relief Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows:
(1) Local property taxes are rising in many 
communities across the United States to meet grow-
ing education expenditures, caused in part by the 
need to meet requirements and standards set by 
Federal education policies. 
(2) States are facing the worst fiscal conditions 
since World War II as the majority of states face 
growing budget shortfalls. In order to meet their 
education budgets, many states are being forced to 
raise taxes. Property taxes are imposed in all 50 
States. It has been estimated that property taxes 
across the country on average will increase 10 per-
cent, and as high as 20 to 30 percent in some 
States. 
(3) With the enactment of the Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act, the Federal Government 
authorized a commitment to provide states funding 
to cover 40 percent of the national average per pupil 
expenditure for each disabled child served. 
(4) The Federal Government has never pro-
vided more than 17 percent of the average per pupil 
expenditure under the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act. 
(5) With the enactment of the No Child Left 
Behind Act of 2001, the Federal Government prom-
ised to provide full funding for programs to help 
schools meet new requirements to demonstrate their 
success in terms of each student’s achievements. 
(6) Since the enactment of the No Child Left 
Behind Act of 2001, the President has failed to re-
quest, and Congress has failed to appropriate, full 
funding levels authorized by the Act. 
(7) Fully funding the Individuals with Disabil-
ities Education Act and the No Child Left Behind 
Act of 2001 would provide billions of dollars to 
States and communities for education expenses, and 
relieve the burden on local property tax payers bear-
ing the brunt of increasing expenditures on schools 
and students. 
(8) Since the beginning of the 107th Congress, 
Congress has approved tax cuts that mostly benefit 
the wealthy, and will result in the loss of more than 
$2,000,000,000,000 in Federal revenue over the 
next decade, a fraction of which could be used to 
fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Edu-
cation Act, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, 
or both Acts.
SEC. 3. FULL FUNDING FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABIL-
ITIES EDUCATION ACT. 
There is appropriated an additional $9,500,000,000, 
for fiscal year 2003, to fully fund 40 percent of the aver-
age per pupil expenditures for programs under section 611 
of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 
U.S.C. 1411). 
SEC. 4. FULL FUNDING FOR THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND 
ACT OF 2001. 
There is appropriated an additional $5,165,000,000, 
for fiscal year 2003, to fully fund programs authorized 
by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 
107–110). 
SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON OFFSETTING REVENUE TO 
PROVIDE FUNDING FOR EDUCATION. 
It is the sense of Congress that the reduction sched-
uled to take effect on January 1, 2004, in the highest in-
come tax rate should be postponed in order to raise reve-
nues sufficient to offset the appropriations made under 
sections 3 and 4.
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