Title: PPE for Safe Schools Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
PPE for Safe Schools Act
This bill provides funding for grants to state educational agencies and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies to purchase sanitation supplies and personal protective equipment, provide staff training, and hire additional support staff to clean and sanitize school facilities and buses.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8664 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8664

To provide funds to local educational agencies for personal protective 
         equipment for educators and other staff, and students.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 23, 2020

 Mr. Garcia of Illinois (for himself, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mrs. Watson 
  Coleman, Mr. Mfume, Ms. Pressley, Mrs. Beatty, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. 
   Norton, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Takano, Ms. Ocasio-
  Cortez, Mr. Soto, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. 
  McGovern, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Raskin, Mr. 
  Khanna, Mr. Kildee, Mr. San Nicolas, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Johnson of 
   Texas, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Vela, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mrs. 
   Napolitano, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Suozzi, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. 
  Hastings, Ms. Fudge, Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. 
 Escobar, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Cicilline, and Mr. Smith of Washington) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide funds to local educational agencies for personal protective 
         equipment for educators and other staff, and students.

    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 ``PPE for Safe Schools Act''.

SEC. 2. PPE FOR SCHOOLS.

    (a) Grants to States.--
            (1) Program authorized.--
                    (A) In general.--The Secretary of Education, in 
                consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human 
                Services, shall make grants in the amount described in 
                subparagraph (A) to each State educational agency with 
                an approved application.
                    (B) Grant amounts.--The amount of each grant under 
                subparagraph (A) shall be allocated by the Secretary to 
                each State educational agency in the same proportion as 
                the State educational agency received under part A of 
                title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
                of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) for the most recent 
                fiscal year.
            (2) Applications.--
                    (A) Application requirements.--To receive a grant 
                under this section, a State educational agency shall 
                submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in 
                such manner, and containing such information as the 
                Secretary may reasonably require.
                    (B) Secretarial notifications.--
                            (i) Inviting applications.--The Secretary 
                        shall issue a notice inviting applications not 
                        later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
                        of this Act.
                            (ii) Approval or denial.--The Secretary 
                        shall approve or deny an application for a 
                        grant under this section not later than 30 days 
                        after receipt of the application.
            (3) Uses of funds.--A State educational that receives a 
        grant under this Act--
                    (A) shall use to not less than 98 percent of the 
                grant to award subgrants to local educational agencies 
                in the State in proportion to the amount of funds each 
                such local educational agency received under part A of 
                title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
                of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) for the most recent 
                fiscal year; and
                    (B) may reserve up to 2 percent for administrative 
                costs and emergency needs with respect to COVID-19, as 
                determined by the State educational agency.
    (b) Subgrants to Local Educational Agencies.--
            (1) Applications.--To receive a subgrant under this 
        section, a local educational agency shall submit an application 
        to the appropriate State educational agency at such time, in 
        such manner, and containing such information as the State 
        educational agency may require.
            (2) Uses of funds.--A local educational agency that 
        receives a subgrant under this section shall use the subgrant 
        for one or more of the following:
                    (A) Purchasing supplies to sanitize and clean the 
                facilities of, and the buses used by, the elementary 
                schools and secondary schools served by such local 
                educational agency.
                    (B) Purchasing personal protective equipment for 
                educators and other staff, and students.
                    (C) Providing training on the use of the equipment 
                and supplies described in subparagraphs (A) and (B).
                    (D) Hiring additional support staff for the 
                cleaning and sanitization described in subparagraph 
                (A).
    (c) Reporting.--Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Health, 
Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate, the Committee on Education and Labor of 
the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives a report that includes--
            (1) the amount of each grant awarded under this Act, and 
        the State educational agency receiving the grant; and
            (2) the percentage of students benefitting from funds 
        awarded under this Act who are eligible for free or reduced 
        price lunch under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
        Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.).
    (d) Funding.--There is appropriated, out of amounts in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, $17,000,000,000, to remain available 
through fiscal year 2021, to make grants under this section.
    (e) Definitions.--In this Act, the terms ``elementary school'', 
``local educational agency'', ``secondary school'', ``Secretary'', 
``State'', and ``State educational agency'' have the meanings given the 
terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
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