Title: IDEA Full Funding Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
IDEA Full Funding Act
This bill provides permanent, mandatory funding for the grant program that assists states and outlying areas in providing special education and related services to children with disabilities.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3213 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3213

 To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to 
               provide full Federal funding of such part.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 16, 2021

  Mr. Van Hollen (for himself, Mr. Tester, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Casey, Ms. 
Smith, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Reed, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Durbin, Mr. 
Cardin, Mr. Brown, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Booker, Mr. Lujan, Ms. Warren, 
Mr. Markey, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. 
Stabenow, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Murphy, and Mr. 
    Peters) 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 part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to 
               provide full Federal funding of such part.

    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 ``IDEA Full Funding Act''.

SEC. 2. MANDATORY FUNDING OF THE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES 
              EDUCATION ACT.

    Section 611(i) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 
(20 U.S.C. 1411(i)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(i) Funding.--
            ``(1) In general.--For the purpose of carrying out this 
        part, other than section 619, there are authorized to be 
        appropriated--
                    ``(A) $15,537,429,000 or 15.4 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2022, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $2,599,972,000 or 2.6 percent of the amount determined 
                under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
                year 2022, which shall become available for obligation 
                on July 1, 2022, and shall remain available through 
                September 30, 2023;
                    ``(B) $17,443,989,000 or 16.9 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2023, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $3,463,597,000 or 3.4 percent of the amount determined 
                under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
                year 2023, which shall become available for obligation 
                on July 1, 2023, and shall remain available through 
                September 30, 2024;
                    ``(C) $19,584,498,000 or 18.5 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2024, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $4,649,809,000 or 4.4 percent of the amount determined 
                under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
                year 2024, which shall become available for obligation 
                on July 1, 2024, and shall remain available through 
                September 30, 2025;
                    ``(D) $21,987,664,000 or 20.3 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2025, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $6,242,273,000 or 5.8 percent of the amount determined 
                under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
                year 2025, which shall become available for obligation 
                on July 1, 2025, and shall remain available through 
                September 30, 2026;
                    ``(E) $24,685,716,000 or 22.3 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2026, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $8,380,125,000 or 7.6 percent of the amount determined 
                under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
                year 2026, which shall become available for obligation 
                on July 1, 2026, and shall remain available through 
                September 30, 2027;
                    ``(F) $27,714,840,000 or 24.5 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2027, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $11,250,146,000 or 10.0 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2027, which shall become available for 
                obligation on July 1, 2027, and shall remain available 
                through September 30, 2028;
                    ``(G) $31,115,660,000 or 26.9 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2028, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $15,103,092,000 or 13.1 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2028, which shall become available for 
                obligation on July 1, 2028, and shall remain available 
                through September 30, 2029;
                    ``(H) $34,933,787,000 or 29.6 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2029, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $20,275,592,000 or 17.2 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2029, which shall become available for 
                obligation on July 1, 2029, and shall remain available 
                through September 30, 2030;
                    ``(I) $39,220,426,000 or 32.4 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2030, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $27,219,569,000 or 22.5 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2030, which shall become available for 
                obligation on July 1, 2030, and shall remain available 
                through September 30, 2031; and
                    ``(J) $49,436,259,000 or 40.0 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2031 and each subsequent fiscal year, 
                and there are hereby appropriated $49,436,259,000 or 
                40.0 percent of the amount determined under paragraph 
                (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2031 and 
                each subsequent fiscal year, which--
                            ``(i) shall become available for obligation 
                        with respect to fiscal year 2031 on July 1, 
                        2031, and shall remain available through 
                        September 30, 2032; and
                            ``(ii) shall become available for 
                        obligation with respect to each subsequent 
                        fiscal year on July 1 of that fiscal year and 
                        shall remain available through September 30 of 
                        the succeeding fiscal year.
            ``(2) Amount.--With respect to each subparagraph of 
        paragraph (1), the amount determined under this paragraph is 
        the product of--
                    ``(A) the total number of children with 
                disabilities in all States who--
                            ``(i) received special education and 
                        related services during the last school year 
                        that concluded before the first day of the 
                        fiscal year for which the determination is 
                        made; and
                            ``(ii) were aged--
                                    ``(I) 3 through 5 (with respect to 
                                the States that were eligible for 
                                grants under section 619); and
                                    ``(II) 6 through 21; and
                    ``(B) the average per-pupil expenditure in public 
                elementary schools and secondary schools in the United 
                States.''.
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