[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2218 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2218

 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure 
that students are counted by using data from local educational agencies 
                            when available.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 1993

 Mr. Goodling (for himself, Mr. Ford of Michigan, Mr. Kildee, and Mr. 
  Gunderson) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure 
that students are counted by using data from local educational agencies 
                            when available.

    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 ``Concentration Grant Targeting and 
Improvements Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES WITH ESPECIALLY HIGH 
              CONCENTRATIONS OF CHILDREN FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES.

    Section 1006 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``in counties'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(1)(A)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking 
                ``county'' and inserting ``local educational agency'';
                    (B) in clause (i), by striking ``in such county''; 
                and
                    (C) in clause (ii), by striking ``of local 
                educational agencies in such county'' and inserting 
                ``of such local educational agencies'';
            (3) in subsection (a)(2)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``county in which there are local educational 
                agencies'' and inserting ``local educational agency'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking ``of a 
                county which qualifies'' and inserting ``which 
                qualify''; and
                    (C) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking ``in a 
                county which qualifies'' and inserting ``which 
                qualify'';
            (4) in subsection (a)(3)--
                    (A) by striking ``county'' each place it appears 
                and inserting ``local educational agency''; and
                    (B) by striking ``counties'' and inserting ``local 
                educational agencies'';
            (5) in subsection (a)(4)--
                    (A) by striking ``any county'' and inserting ``any 
                local educational agency'';
                    (B) by striking ``of local educational agencies in 
                such county'' and inserting ``of such local educational 
                agencies''; and
                    (C) by striking ``for such county'' and inserting 
                ``for such local educational agency'';
            (6) in subsection (a)(5), to read as follows:
            ``(5) In States which receive the minimum grant amount 
        under paragraph (1), the State educational agency shall 
        allocate such funds among the local educational agencies in 
        such State in rank order of their respective concentration and 
        numbers of children from low-income families and in amounts 
        which are consistent with the degree of concentration of 
        poverty, except that only those local educational agencies with 
        concentrations of poverty that exceed the statewide average of 
        poverty shall receive any funds pursuant to the provisions of 
        this paragraph.''; and
            (7) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``in each county'' 
        after ``agencies''.

SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF DATA.

    (a) Data.--If satisfactory data regarding local educational 
agencies is not available to calculate grant amounts, the Secretary may 
use data regarding counties or the equivalent units of local 
government.
    (b) Effective Date.--If the data for local educational agencies is 
available, the amendments made by section 2 of this Act shall take 
effect on July 1, 1994.

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