Title: School Reopening and Spending Transparency Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
School Reopening and Spending Transparency Act
This bill requires the Department of Education to establish and update monthly a public website to track state expenditures of certain COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) education relief funds. States must report on the operating status of their public elementary and secondary schools during the 2020-2021 school year for inclusion on the website.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 827 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 827

  To authorize the Secretary of Education to establish and maintain a 
    public website tracking the expenditures by States of COVID-19 
                        education relief funds.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 18, 2021

Ms. Ernst (for herself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Tillis, 
Mrs. Capito, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Cramer, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Braun, Mr. Lee, 
Mr. Hagerty, Ms. Lummis, and Mr. Sasse) 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 authorize the Secretary of Education to establish and maintain a 
    public website tracking the expenditures by States of COVID-19 
                        education relief funds.

    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 ``School Reopening and Spending 
Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. TRACKING COVID-19 EDUCATION RELIEF FUNDS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Education shall establish and 
maintain a public website tracking the expenditures by States of COVID-
19 education relief funds provided under the following:
            (1) The Education Stabilization Fund under title VIII of 
        division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136).
            (2) The Education Stabilization Fund under title III of the 
        Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations 
        Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260).
            (3) Part 1 of subtitle A of title II of the American Rescue 
        Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).
    (b) Update.--The Secretary of Education shall update the data on 
the public website described under subsection (a) monthly.
    (c) Report on Operating Status.--
            (1) In general.--Each State that receives COVID-19 
        education relief funds under any of the provisions described in 
        paragraphs (1) through (3) of subsection (a) shall submit a 
        report to the Secretary of Education on a monthly basis that 
        includes the operating status of each public elementary school 
        and secondary school in the State during the 2020-2021 school 
        year, including, for each such school, the following:
                    (A) The number of school days the school did not 
                offer in-person instruction for any students enrolled 
                in the school.
                    (B) The number of days the school offered hybrid 
                learning.
                    (C) The number of days the school offered full-day, 
                in-person instruction for all students enrolled in the 
                school.
            (2) Publication.--The Secretary of Education shall publish 
        the information submitted under paragraph (1) on the public 
        website described under subsection (a) and shall update the 
        information monthly.
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