Title: ELEVATE Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Ensuring Linguistic Excellence and Vocational Aptitude by Teaching English Act or the ELEVATE Act
This bill makes changes in the treatment of Puerto Rico with respect to allotments for English Language Acquisition grants, to allow students who have migrated from Puerto Rico to the states to be fully counted in the annual grant allocation that states receive under such program.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2761 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2761

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide 
  that children who have relocated from Puerto Rico to the States are 
  fully considered for purposes of State allotments under the English 
                      Language Acquisition grants.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 31, 2019

 Mr. Rubio (for himself and Mr. Murphy) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide 
  that children who have relocated from Puerto Rico to the States are 
  fully considered for purposes of State allotments under the English 
                      Language Acquisition grants.

    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 ``Ensuring Linguistic Excellence and 
Vocational Aptitude by Teaching English Act'' or the ``ELEVATE Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF PUERTO RICO WITH RESPECT TO ALLOTMENTS FOR ENGLISH 
              LANGUAGE ACQUISITION GRANTS.

    (a) Change in Definition.--Section 3201(5) of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7011(5)) is amended--
            (1) in the paragraph heading, by inserting ``and migrants 
        from puerto rico'' after ``youth'';
            (2) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
        ``immigrant children and youth'' and inserting ``immigrant 
        children and youth and migrants from Puerto Rico'';
            (3) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``in which the 
        primary language of instruction in public elementary schools 
        and secondary schools is English'' after ``any State''; and
            (4) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``, other than Puerto 
        Rico,'' after ``States''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Part A of title III of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6811 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) in each of sections 3102 and 3114 (20 U.S.C. 6812 and 
        6824), by striking ``immigrant children and youth'' each place 
        the term appears and inserting ``immigrant children and youth 
        and migrants from Puerto Rico'';
            (2) in section 3111 (20 U.S.C. 6821)--
                    (A) by striking ``immigrant children and youth'' 
                each place the term appears and inserting ``immigrant 
                children and youth and migrants from Puerto Rico''; and
                    (B) in subsection (c)(2)(A)(ii), by inserting ``and 
                migrants'' after ``such children and youth'';
            (3) in section 3113(b)(7) (20 U.S.C. 6823(b)(7)), by 
        striking ``children and youth'' and inserting ``immigrant 
        children and youth and migrants from Puerto Rico''; and
            (4) in section 3115 (20 U.S.C. 6825)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading of subsection (e), by 
                inserting ``and Migrants From Puerto Rico''; and
                    (B) by striking ``immigrant children and youth'' 
                each place the term appears and inserting ``immigrant 
                children and youth and migrants from Puerto Rico''.
    (c) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsections (a) and 
(b)--
            (1) shall apply with respect to grants awarded under title 
        III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
        U.S.C. 6801 et seq.) for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 only if the 
        Secretary of Education determines for such fiscal year that the 
        application of such amendments will not result in a State 
        receiving an allotment under title III of such Act for such 
        fiscal year that is less than the allotment such State received 
        under such title in fiscal year 2019; and
            (2) shall apply beginning on and after October 1, 2021.
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