Title: 21st Century Community Learning Centers Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020
Policy area: Education

Summary:
21st Century Community Learning Centers Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020
This bill expands the allowable uses for subgrants provided under the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency. Additionally, the bill provides funds to subgrant recipients for specified activities and supplies.
Specifically, the bill allows eligible entities (e.g., local educational agencies and community-based organizations) that are awarded program subgrants for community learning centers to use these subgrants to carry out activities that advance student academic achievement and support student success during the regular school day when full-time in-person instruction is not available to students. Further, eligible entities may carry out these activities regardless of whether such activities are conducted in person or virtually. (Currently, the program only supports academic enrichment opportunities for children during non-school hours or periods when school is not in session.)
Subgrant recipients must comply with all applicable health and safety requirements.
Finally, the bill provides funds for subgrant recipients to provide additional hours of service, hire additional staff to maintain social distancing, and purchase cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4868 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4868

 To allow eligible entities under part B of title IV of the Elementary 
     and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to use subgrant funds for 
   activities authorized under such part, regardless of whether such 
activities are conducted during nonschool hours or periods when school 
               is not in session, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             October 26 (legislative day, October 19), 2020

  Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Ms. Smith) 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 allow eligible entities under part B of title IV of the Elementary 
     and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to use subgrant funds for 
   activities authorized under such part, regardless of whether such 
activities are conducted during nonschool hours or periods when school 
               is not in session, 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 ``21st Century Community Learning 
Centers Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. FLEXIBLE USE OF SUBGRANT FUNDS.

    Notwithstanding each provision in part B of title IV of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7171 et seq.) 
that requires activities under such part to be carried out during 
nonschool hours or periods when school is not in session, for the 
period under which a public health emergency declared by the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on January 31, 2020, with respect to 
COVID-19 is in effect or until June 30, 2022, whichever is later, an 
eligible entity that is awarded a subgrant under section 4204 of such 
Act (20 U.S.C. 7174) for community learning centers may use such 
subgrant funds to carry out activities described in section 4205 of 
such Act (20 U.S.C. 7175)--
            (1) during the regular school day for students eligible to 
        receive services under part B of title IV of such Act (20 
        U.S.C. 7171 et seq.) when the student is not receiving full-
        time in-person instruction;
            (2) regardless of whether such activities are conducted in 
        person or virtually; and
            (3) if such activities supplement but do not supplant 
        regular school day instruction.

SEC. 3. COMPLIANCE WITH HEALTH MANDATES.

    An eligible entity that is awarded a subgrant under section 4204 of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7174) for 
a community learning center shall implement all applicable State, 
local, and Tribal health and safety requirements, and, if applicable, 
enhanced protocols related to the public health emergency declared by 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 319 of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on January 31, 2020, with 
respect to COVID-19.

SEC. 4. APPLICATION TO PROVIDE SERVICES DURING THE SCHOOL DAY.

    An eligible entity that seeks to provide services pursuant to the 
authority under this Act shall submit to the State educational agency 
in such form as shall be required, an addendum to the eligible entity's 
application submitted under section 4204(b) of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7174(b))--
            (1) specifying how the subgrant funds and any additional 
        funds to be awarded will be used to carry out the activities 
        described in section 4205 of the Elementary and Secondary 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7175); and
            (2) describing how the eligible entity will comply with 
        section 3 of this Act.

SEC. 5. APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated and there is appropriated 
(in addition to any other amounts appropriated to carry out part B of 
title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 7171 et seq.) and out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated), $1,200,000,000 to enable eligible entities that are 
awarded subgrants under section 4204 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7174) to provide additional hours of 
service, hire additional staff to maintain social distancing, and to 
pay for cleaning, sanitization, and personal protective equipment 
supplies.
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