Title: Cultivating Learning Assistance for Student Success Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Cultivating Learning Assistance for Student Success Act
This bill directs the Department of Education to establish a pilot program to award grants to public or private secondary schools to benefit students with autism or apraxia. (Apraxia is the loss or impairment of the ability to execute complex coordinated movements without muscular or sensory impairment.)

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1662 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1662

 To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program to 
 provide grants to secondary schools for assistive technology devices 
  and assistive technology services and to create programs to benefit 
        students with autism or apraxia, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 11, 2019

  Mr. Marchant (for himself and Ms. Sewell of Alabama) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                                 Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program to 
 provide grants to secondary schools for assistive technology devices 
  and assistive technology services and to create programs to benefit 
        students with autism or apraxia, 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 ``Cultivating Learning Assistance for 
Student Success Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTISM AND APRAXIA GRANT PILOT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish a pilot program 
under which the Secretary shall award grants to public or private 
secondary schools to benefit students with autism or apraxia in 
accordance with subsection (c).
    (b) Applications.--To be eligible to receive a grant under this 
section, a secondary school shall submit to the Secretary an 
application at such time, in such manner, and containing such 
information as the Secretary may require.
    (c) Requirements.--A secondary school that receives a grant under 
this section shall use the funds to--
            (1) provide assistive technology devices and assistive 
        technology service to students with autism or apraxia;
            (2) create a program to provide individual support and 
        services for the academic and social inclusion of students with 
        autism or apraxia in academic courses and extracurricular 
        activities provided by the secondary school; and
            (3) not later than 180 days after the date on which a 
        secondary school receives such grant, seek a partnership with 
        one or more local educational agencies licensed in the 
        respective State to support the participation of students in 
        the program under paragraph (2).
    (d) Grant Duration and Amount.--
            (1) Duration.--Each grant under this section shall be made 
        for a period of 1 year.
            (2) Amount.--The Secretary shall determine the maximum 
        amount of each grant under this section.
    (e) Supplement, Not Supplant.--A secondary school shall use a grant 
received under this section only to supplement funds that would, in the 
absence of such grant, be made from other Federal, State, or local 
sources for activities supported by the grant, not to supplant such 
funds.
    (f) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date on which the 
pilot program under subsection (a) is completed, the Secretary shall 
submit to the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions of the Senate a report on such pilot program, including a 
detailed description of grants awarded under the pilot program and an 
evaluation of the pilot program.
    (g) Termination of Pilot Program.--The pilot program under 
subsection (a) shall terminate on the date that is 5 years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
    (h) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) ESEA terms.--The terms ``secondary school'', 
        ``Secretary'', and ``local 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).
            (2) IDEA terms.--The terms ``assistive technology device'', 
        ``assistive technology service'', and ``child with a 
        disability'' have the meanings given the terms in section 602 
        of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 
        1401).
            (3) Student with autism or apraxia.--The term ``student 
        with autism or apraxia'' means a child with a disability who 
        has autism or apraxia.
    (i) Amendment to Definition of Child With a Disability.--Section 
602(3)(A)(i) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 
U.S.C. 1401(3)(A)(i)) is amended by inserting ``apraxia,'' after 
``autism,''.
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