Title: Recognizing and celebrating the 70th anniversary of Impact Aid on September 30, 2020.
Policy area: Education

Summary:
This resolution recognizes and celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Impact Aid Program. The program provides funding to local educational agencies 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).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1140 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1140

   Recognizing and celebrating the 70th anniversary of Impact Aid on 
                          September 30, 2020.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 2020

 Mr. Newhouse (for himself and Mr. Levin of California) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                               and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Recognizing and celebrating the 70th anniversary of Impact Aid on 
                          September 30, 2020.

Whereas September 30, 2020, marks the 70th anniversary of the date on which 
        President Harry S Truman signed Public Law 81-874, which enacted the 
        Impact Aid program into law;
Whereas the Impact Aid program is considered by the community it serves as the 
        ``original'' Federal elementary and secondary education program, and is 
        administered by the Secretary of Education;
Whereas Impact Aid reimburses local educational agencies for the loss of revenue 
        and additional costs associated with the presence of tax-exempt Federal 
        property;
Whereas Impact Aid payments are dispersed directly to local educational 
        agencies, which allocate the resources based on local context and needs 
        to provide a quality education to the students they serve;
Whereas nearly 880,000 children of our men and women in uniform, children 
        residing on Indian lands, children in low-rent public housing, and 
        children of civilians working or living on Federal land are ``federally 
        connected children'' who are served by local educational agencies that 
        are eligible for Impact Aid Basic Support Payments in 2020;
Whereas there are 4,800,000 federally owned acres in local educational agencies 
        that are eligible for Impact Aid Federal Property payments, with Federal 
        land making up a quarter or more of the overall property in nearly one-
        third of these agencies;
Whereas, in 2020, 1,159 local educational agencies enrolling over 10,000,000 
        students will receive $1,486,112,000;
Whereas the Impact Aid statute (Public Law 81-874) was the vehicle used by 
        Congress in 1965 to pass the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
        1965;
Whereas Congress has continued to demonstrate its support for Impact Aid by 
        reauthorizing the program 16 times during the period between 1950 and 
        2020;
Whereas the House Impact Aid Coalition was established in 1995 and the Senate 
        Impact Aid Coalition was established in 1996 to formalize and energize 
        the broad, bipartisan support for the Impact Aid program; and
Whereas the Federal obligation upon which the Impact Aid program is based is 
        today the same as it was 70 years ago: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes and celebrates the 70th anniversary of the 
        enactment of the Impact Aid program (Public Law 81-874), the 
        original Federal elementary and secondary education program, as 
        ``Impact Aid Recognition Day''; and
            (2) recognizes the importance of the Impact Aid program 
        under title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
        of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) in ensuring that all children 
        educated in federally impacted local educational agencies 
        receive a high-quality education and have access to the 
        opportunities they need to reach their full potential.
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