Supplemental Impact Aid Flexibility Act
Bill: S.2959 | Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John (R-SD)
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Supplemental Impact Aid Flexibility Act
This bill revises the Impact Aid Program application process for FY2023.
Specifically, the bill requires local educational agencies (LEAs) participating in the Impact Aid Program to use the student count or federal property valuation data from their FY2022 program applications, as applicable, for their FY2023 program applications. The program provides funding to LEAs that have lost property tax revenue due to the presence of tax-exempt federal property or to those that have experienced increased expenditures due to enrollment of federally connected children (e.g., children living on Indian lands or military bases).

[117th Congress Public Law 83]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 117-83
117th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To provide that, due to the disruptions caused by COVID-19, applications 
    for impact aid funding for fiscal year 2023 may use certain data 
    submitted in the fiscal year 2022 application. <<NOTE: Jan. 21, 
                          2022 -  [S. 2959]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Supplemental 
Impact Aid Flexibility Act. 20 USC 7705 note.>> 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Supplemental Impact Aid Flexibility 
Act''.
SEC. 2. IMPACT AID PROGRAM.

    Due to the public health emergency directly relating to COVID-19 and 
notwithstanding sections 7002(j) and 7003(c) of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7702(j), 7703(c)), a local 
educational agency desiring to receive a payment under section 7002 or 
7003 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 7702, 7703) for fiscal year 2023 that also 
submitted an application for such payment for fiscal year 2022 shall, in 
the application submitted under section 7005 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 
7705) for fiscal year 2023--
            (1) with respect to a requested payment under section 7002 
        of such Act--
                    (A) use the data described in section 7002(j) of 
                such Act relating to calculating such payment that was 
                submitted by the local educational agency in the 
                application for fiscal year 2022; or
                    (B) use the data relating to calculating such 
                payment for the fiscal year required under section 
                7002(j) of such Act; and
            (2) with respect to a requested payment under section 7003 
        of such Act--
                    (A) use the student count data relating to 
                calculating such payment that was submitted by the local 
                educational agency in the application for fiscal year 
                2022, provided that payments for fiscal year 2023 shall 
                be calculated by the Secretary using the expenditures 
                and rates described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), and 
                (iv) of section 7003(b)(1)(C) of such Act that would 
                otherwise apply for fiscal year 2023; or

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                    (B) use the student count data relating to 
                calculating such payment for the fiscal year required 
                under section 7003(c) of such Act.

    Approved January 21, 2022.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 2959:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
                                                        Vol. 167 (2021):
                                    Dec. 13, considered and passed 
                                        Senate.
                                                        Vol. 168 (2022):
                                    Jan. 18, considered and passed 
                                        House.

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