Title: Defending Special Education Students and Families Act of 2017
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Defending Special Education Students and Families Act of 2017
This bill amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to authorize appropriations for grants to assist states in providing special education and related services to children with disabilities. For FY2018-FY2022, the bill authorizes specified amounts. For FY2023 and each subsequent fiscal year, the bill authorizes amounts using a specified formula.
The bill also amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to modify the discretionary spending limits for FY2018-FY2021. For each fiscal year, the bill decreases the limit for security spending by a specified amount and increases the limit for nonsecurity spending by the same amount. The nonsecurity spending increases are the same amounts as are authorized in the bill for additional funding under the IDEA in those fiscal years.


[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4602 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4602

    To authorize the full funding of part B of the Individuals with 
   Disabilities Education Act by making certain spending cuts to the 
                         Department of Defense.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 7, 2017

  Mr. Polis introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the full funding of part B of the Individuals with 
   Disabilities Education Act by making certain spending cuts to the 
                         Department of Defense.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Defending Special Education Students 
and Families Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR PART B OF THE INDIVIDUALS 
              WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT.

    Section 611(i) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 
(20 U.S.C. 1411(i)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(i) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of carrying 
out this part, other than section 619, there are authorized to be 
appropriated--
            ``(1) $14,820,549,000 for fiscal year 2018;
            ``(2) $18,299,715,000 for fiscal year 2019;
            ``(3) $22,595,623,000 for fiscal year 2020;
            ``(4) $27,900,008,000 for fiscal year 2021;
            ``(5) $34,499,611,000 for fiscal year 2022; and
            ``(6) for fiscal year 2023 and each subsequent fiscal 
        year--
                    ``(A) the number of children with disabilities in 
                the prior school year in the States, outlying areas, 
                and freely associated States who received special 
                education and related services--
                            ``(i) aged 3 through 5 if the States, 
                        outlying areas, and freely associated States 
                        are eligible for a grant under section 619; and
                            ``(ii) aged 6 through 21; multiplied by
                    ``(B) 40 percent of the average per-pupil 
                expenditure in public elementary schools and secondary 
                schools in the United States; adjusted by
                    ``(C) the rate of annual change in the sum of 85 
                percent of such State's, outlying areas, and freely 
                associated State's population described in subsection 
                (d)(3)(A)(i)(II).''.

SEC. 3. REDIRECTION OF DEFENSE SPENDING FOR DOMESTIC PROGRAMS.

    (a) Changes to Discretionary Spending Limits.--Section 251(c) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
901(c)) is amended as follows:
            (1) Fiscal year 2018.--In paragraph (5)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), relating to spending in 
                the revised security category, by inserting 
                ``(decreased by $14,820,549,000)'' after the dollar 
                amount; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), relating to spending in 
                the revised nonsecurity category, by inserting 
                ``(increased by $14,820,549,000)'' after the dollar 
                amount.
            (2) Fiscal year 2019.--In paragraph (6)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), relating to spending in 
                the revised security category, by inserting 
                ``(decreased by $18,299,715,000)'' after the dollar 
                amount; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), relating to spending in 
                the revised nonsecurity category, by inserting 
                ``(increased by $18,299,715,000)'' after the dollar 
                amount.
            (3) Fiscal year 2020.--In paragraph (7)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), relating to spending in 
                the revised security category, by inserting 
                ``(decreased by $22,595,623,000)'' after the dollar 
                amount; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), relating to spending in 
                the revised nonsecurity category, by inserting 
                ``(increased by $22,595,623,000)'' after the dollar 
                amount.
            (4) Fiscal year 2021.--In paragraph (8)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), relating to spending in 
                the revised security category, by inserting 
                ``(decreased by $27,900,008,000)'' after the dollar 
                amount; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), relating to spending in 
                the revised nonsecurity category, by inserting 
                ``(increased by $27,900,008,000)'' after the dollar 
                amount.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriation.--From amounts made available 
for programs within the ``revised nonsecurity category'' pursuant to 
subsection (a), the following amounts are authorized to be appropriated 
in accordance with the amendment made by section 2(a)--
            (1) $14,820,549,000 for fiscal year 2018;
            (2) $18,299,715,000 for fiscal year 2019;
            (3) $22,595,623,000 for fiscal year 2020; and
            (4) $27,900,008,000 for fiscal year 2021.
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