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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3145 
To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to 
provide full Federal funding of such part. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 30, 2005 
Mr. BASS (for himself, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. SIMMONS, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. 
RAMSTAD, Mr. BRADLEY of New Hampshire, and Mr. MORAN of Kansas) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part. 
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 ‘‘Mandatory IDEA Full 
Funding Compromise Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO IDEA. 
Section 611(i) of the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411(i)) is amended to read 
as follows:
‘‘(i) FUNDING.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—For the purpose of car-
rying out this part, other than section 619, there are 
authorized to be appropriated— 
‘‘(A) $14,648,647,143 or 25.7 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is less, for fiscal year 2006, and 
there are hereby appropriated $4,058,947,143 
or 7.1 percent of the amount determined under 
paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fiscal year 
2006, which shall become available for obliga-
tion on July 1, 2006, and shall remain available 
through September 30, 2007; 
‘‘(B) $16,938,917,714 or 28.9 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is less, for fiscal year 2007, and 
there are hereby appropriated $6,349,217,714 
or 10.8 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fis-
cal year 2007, which shall become available for 
obligation on July 1, 2007, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2008; 
‘‘(C) $19,229,188,286 or 32.3 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is less, for fiscal year 2008, and
there are hereby appropriated $8,639,488,286 
or 14.5 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fis-
cal year 2008, which shall become available for 
obligation on July 1, 2008, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2009; 
‘‘(D) $21,519,458,857 or 35.3 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is less, for fiscal year 2009, and 
there are hereby appropriated $10,929,758,887 
or 17.9 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fis-
cal year 2009, which shall become available for 
obligation on July 1, 2009, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2010; 
‘‘(E) $23,809,729,429 or 38.1 percent of 
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 
whichever is less, for fiscal year 2010, and 
there are hereby appropriated $13,220,029,429 
or 21.2 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fis-
cal year 2010, which shall become available for 
obligation on July 1, 2010, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2011;
‘‘(F) $26,100,000,000 or 40 percent of the 
amount determined 
under 
paragraph 
(2), 
whichever is less, for fiscal year 2011, and 
there are hereby appropriated $15,510,300,000 
or 21.3 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2), whichever is less, for fis-
cal year 2011, which shall become available for 
obligation on July 1, 2011, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2012; and 
‘‘(G) 40 percent of the amount determined 
under paragraph (2) for fiscal year 2012 and 
each subsequent fiscal year, and there are here-
by appropriated 21.3 percent of the amount de-
termined under paragraph (2) for fiscal year 
2012 and each subsequent fiscal year, which 
shall become available for obligation (A) with 
respect to fiscal year 2012, on July 1, 2012, 
and shall remain available through September 
30, 2013, and (B) with respect to each subse-
quent fiscal year, on July 1 of that fiscal year 
and shall remain available through September 
30 of the succeeding fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) AMOUNT.—The amount referred to in each 
of subparagraphs (A) through (G) of paragraph (1) 
is the product of—
‘‘(A) the number of children with disabil-
ities in all States who are receiving special edu-
cation and related services— 
‘‘(i) aged 3 through 5 if the State is 
eligible for a grant under section 619; and 
‘‘(ii) aged 6 through 21; and 
‘‘(B) the average per-pupil expenditure in 
public elementary and secondary schools in the 
United States.’’. 
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