Title: Education and Energy Act of 2019
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Education and Energy Act of 2019
This bill requires excess revenue from new mineral and geothermal leases to be provided to the counties in which the revenue is generated to supplement the education of students in kindergarten through grade 12 and to supplement public support of institutions of higher education. The bill applies to revenue from new leases that are in excess of the Congressional Budget Office's estimated revenue for the leases in the prior fiscal year.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 786 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 786

To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to require that a portion of revenues 
 from new Federal mineral and geothermal leases be paid to States for 
  use to supplement the education of students in kindergarten through 
 grade 12 and public support of institutions of higher education, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 24, 2019

  Mr. Tipton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
Education and Labor, 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 amend the Mineral Leasing Act to require that a portion of revenues 
 from new Federal mineral and geothermal leases be paid to States for 
  use to supplement the education of students in kindergarten through 
 grade 12 and public support of institutions of higher education, and 
                          for other purposes.

    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 ``Education and Energy Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. USE OF REVENUES FROM NEW FEDERAL MINERAL AND GEOTHERMAL LEASES 
              FOR PAYMENTS TO STATE FOR EDUCATION.

    Section 35(a) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191) is amended 
by inserting ``(1)'' before the first sentence, and by adding at the 
end the following new paragraph:
            ``(2)(A) Of amounts otherwise required under paragraph (1) 
        to be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury each 
        fiscal year that are derived from leases for tracts located in 
        a State, the Secretary shall pay to the county from which the 
        mineral or geothermal royalties were generated 33 percent for 
        use to supplement the education of students in kindergarten 
        through grade 12 and to supplement public support of 
        institutions of higher education.
            ``(B) Of the amounts otherwise required under paragraph (1) 
        to be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury each 
        fiscal year that are not required to be used for payments under 
        subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, the Secretary shall pay to 
        States, in equal amounts, 17 percent for use to supplement the 
        education of students in kindergarten through grade 12 and to 
        supplement public support of institutions of higher education.
            ``(C) Subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall apply only with 
        respect to amounts that--
                    ``(i) are received by the United States under 
                leases entered into under this Act or the Geothermal 
                Steam Act of 1970 after the date of enactment of the 
                Education and Energy Act of 2019; and
                    ``(ii) exceed the amount of revenues that the 
                Congressional Budget Office previously estimated would 
                be received under such leases in the fiscal year.
            ``(D) Subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall not apply with 
        respect to amounts required by paragraph (1) to be paid into, 
        reserved, or appropriated as part of the reclamation fund.
            ``(E) Any amounts received by a county under subparagraph 
        (A) shall not be considered when calculating payments to that 
        county under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
        Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) or chapter 
        69 of title 31, United States Code.''.
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