Keep Kids in Schools Act

Bill: 117-hr-6413
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cammack, Kat [R-FL-3]
Introduced: 2022-01-18
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding

Elementary and secondary education

Teaching, teachers, curricula
Latest action: action_date: 2022-01-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-01-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Keep Kids in Schools Act</strong></p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6413 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 18, 2022 Mrs. Cammack (for herself, Mr. Mast , Mr. Waltz , Mr. Dunn , and Mr. Rutherford ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To prohibit local educational agencies from obligating certain Federal funds when schools are not providing full-time in-person instruction.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Keep Kids in Schools Act . 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.