Title: Keep Kids in Schools Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Keep Kids in Schools Act
This bill prohibits a local educational agency (LEA) from obligating federal COVID-19 relief funds during any period when one or more elementary or secondary schools served by the LEA do not provide full-time, in-person instruction. This prohibition does not apply with respect to a school that does not provide full-time, in-person instruction due to following quarantine or isolation guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3460 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 240
117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3460

To prohibit local educational agencies from obligating certain Federal 
 funds when schools are not providing full time in-person instruction.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 10, 2022

 Mr. Rubio introduced the following bill; which was read the first time

                            January 18, 2022

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit local educational agencies from obligating certain Federal 
 funds when schools are not providing full time in-person instruction.

    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 ``Keep Kids in Schools Act''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTION RELATING TO IN-PERSON INSTRUCTION.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
subject to subsection (b), a local educational agency that received 
funds under section 18003 of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 
116-136), section 313 of the Coronavirus Response and Relief 
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (division M of Public Law 116-
260), or section 2001 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public 
Law 117-2) shall not obligate such funds during any period when one or 
more elementary or secondary schools served by such local educational 
agency are not providing full time in-person instruction.
    (b) Exception.--The restriction described in subsection (a) shall 
not apply with respect to a school that is not providing full time in-
person instruction due to following quarantine or isolation guidelines 
issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
                                                       Calendar No. 240

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 3460

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To prohibit local educational agencies from obligating certain Federal 
 funds when schools are not providing full time in-person instruction.

_______________________________________________________________________

                            January 18, 2022

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar