To amend the percentage of funds appropriated under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 required to be reserved for outlying areas and the Secretary of the Interior.

Bill: 113-hr-403
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-01-23
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations

Education of the disadvantaged

Education programs funding

Elementary and secondary education

Indian social and development programs

Minority education

U.S. territories and protectorates
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-01-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to alter the percentage of school improvement funds that are reserved for outlying areas and Indian education. </p> <p>Reserves 0.5% of those funds for outlying areas and 0.75% for Indian education. (Currently, 1% of those funds are reserved for outlying areas and Indian education.)</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 403 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 23, 2013 Mr. Sablan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the percentage of funds appropriated under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 required to be reserved for outlying areas and the Secretary of the Interior.

1. Grants for outlying areas and the Secretary of the Interior Section 1121(a) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6331(a) ) is amended— (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking a total of 1 percent to provide assistance to ; (2) in paragraph (1), by inserting .5 percent to provide assistance to before the outlying ; and (3) in paragraph (2), by inserting .75 percent to provide assistance to before the Secretary .