Title: COBIA Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Counting Overlooked Base Impact Aid Act or the COBIA Act
This bill requires the commanders of each military installation to annually submit written certification to their respective military departments verifying whether they have confirmed the information contained in all Impact Aid source check forms received from local educational agencies (LEAs) as of the date of such certification. Such forms are submitted by LEAs to confirm the number and identity of children eligible to be counted for purposes of the federal Impact Aid program.


[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4861 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4861

    To require that commanders of military installations verify the 
  reporting of eligible federally connected children for purposes of 
                      Federal impact aid programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2021

Mr. Wittman (for himself and Mr. Hudson) 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 require that commanders of military installations verify the 
  reporting of eligible federally connected children for purposes of 
                      Federal impact aid programs.

    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 ``Counting Overlooked Base Impact Aid 
Act'' or the ``COBIA Act''.

SEC. 2. VERIFICATION OF REPORTING OF ELIGIBLE FEDERALLY CONNECTED 
              CHILDREN FOR PURPOSES OF FEDERAL IMPACT AID PROGRAMS.

    (a) Certification.--On an annual basis, each commander of a 
military installation under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of a 
military department shall submit to such Secretary a written 
certification verifying whether the commander has confirmed the 
information contained in all impact aid source check forms received 
from local educational agencies as of the date of such certification.
    (b) Report.--Not later June 30 of each year, each Secretary of a 
military department shall submit to the congressional defense 
committees a report, based on the information received under subsection 
(a), that identifies--
            (1) each military installation under the jurisdiction of 
        such Secretary that has confirmed the information contained in 
        all impact aid source check forms received from local 
        educational agencies as of the date of the report; and
            (2) each military installation that has not confirmed the 
        information contained in such forms as of such date.
    (c) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) Term ``congressional defense committees'' has the 
        meaning given that term in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, 
        United States Code.
            (2) The term ``impact aid source check form'' means a form 
        submitted to a military installation by a local educational 
        agency to confirm the number and identity of children eligible 
        to be counted for purposes of the Federal impact aid program 
        under section 7003(a) of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
        Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7703(a)).
            (3) The term ``local educational agency'' has the meaning 
        given that term in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
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