[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 939 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 939

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide 
   hold-harmless payment amounts for impact-aid payments relating to 
                 Federal acquisition of real property.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 1995

Mr. Saxton (for himself and Mr. Bateman) introduced the following bill; 
    which was referred to the Committee on Economic and Educational 
                             Opportunities

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide 
   hold-harmless payment amounts for impact-aid payments relating to 
                 Federal acquisition of real property.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. HOLD-HARMLESS AMOUNTS FOR PAYMENTS RELATING TO FEDERAL 
              ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY.

    Section 8002 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 7702) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(g) Hold-Harmless Amounts.--
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2)(A), 
        the total amount that the Secretary shall pay a local 
        educational agency under subsection (b) shall not be less than 
        85 percent of the amount such agency received for the preceding 
        fiscal year--
                    ``(A) in the case of fiscal year 1995 only, under 
                section 2 of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 
                874, 81st Congress) as such section was in effect on 
                October 19, 1994; or
                    ``(B) in the case of fiscal year 1996, under such 
                subsection (b).
            ``(2) Ratable reductions.--(A)(i) If necessary in order to 
        make payments to local educational agencies in accordance with 
        paragraph (1), the Secretary first shall ratably reduce 
        payments under subsection (b) to local educational agencies 
        that do not receive a payment under this subsection.
            ``(ii) If additional funds become available for making 
        payments under subsection (b) for such fiscal year, payments 
        that were reduced under clause (i) shall be increased on the 
        same basis as such payments were reduced.
            ``(B)(i) If the sums made available under this title for 
        any fiscal year are insufficient to pay the full amounts that 
        all local educational agencies in all States are eligible to 
        receive under paragraph (1) after the application of 
        subparagraph (A) for such year, the Secretary shall ratably 
        reduce payments to all such agencies for such year.
            ``(ii) If additional funds become available for making 
        payments under paragraph (1) for such fiscal year, payments 
        that were reduced under clause (i) shall be increased on the 
        same basis as such payments were reduced.''.
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