Title: Survey Our Military Impacted Schools Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Survey Our Military Impacted Schools Act
This bill requires the Department of Defense to study and report on the unmet capital-improvement needs of each elementary and secondary school that (1) has a total enrollment of not fewer than 150 students, (2) is not located within the boundaries of a federal military installation, and (3) is served by a local education agency that serves a student population consisting of a specified proportion of students who are dependents of active-duty military personnel.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4917 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4917

     To direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study on the 
 renovation, repair, or expansion needs of certain elementary schools 
 and secondary schools that educate dependants of active duty military 
                               personnel.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 30, 2019

Ms. Gabbard (for herself, Mr. Kim, Mr. Cook, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. 
 Moulton, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Rouzer, and Ms. Kendra S. Horn of Oklahoma) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
    Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 
Services, 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 direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study on the 
 renovation, repair, or expansion needs of certain elementary schools 
 and secondary schools that educate dependants of active duty military 
                               personnel.

    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 ``Survey Our Military Impacted Schools 
Act''.

SEC. 2. STUDY AND REPORT ON CONSTRUCTION GRANT PROGRAM.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the heads of any other 
relevant agencies, shall conduct a study and submit a report on such 
study to Congress on the unmet capital improvement needs (including 
renovation, repair, or expansion needs) of each elementary school and 
secondary school--
            (1) in which the total student enrollment for the most 
        recent school year was not less than 150 students;
            (2) that is not located within the boundaries of a Federal 
        military installation; and
            (3) that is served by a local educational agency--
                    (A) in which at least 15 percent, but not more than 
                40 percent, of the total student enrollment for the 
                most recent school year in schools of the agency were 
                children described in subparagraphs (B) and (D)(i) of 
                section 7003(a)(1) of the Elementary and Secondary 
                Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7703(a)(1)); and
                    (B) that is eligible for assistance under title VII 
                of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
                (20 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.).
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