[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1902 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1902

   To require the Secretary of Education to correct poverty data to 
                account for cost of living differences.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 1999

  Ms. Woolsey (for herself, Mr. George Miller of California, and Ms. 
   Pelosi) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Education to correct poverty data to 
                account for cost of living differences.

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

SECTION 1. POVERTY DATA.

    Title XIV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 8801 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

                   ``PART I--POVERTY DATA ADJUSTMENTS

``SEC. 14901. POVERTY DATA ADJUSTMENTS.

    ``Whenever the Secretary uses any data that relates to the 
incidence of poverty and is produced or published by or for the 
Secretary of Commerce for subnational, State or substate areas, the 
Secretary shall adjust the data to account for differences in the cost 
of living in the areas.''.

SEC. 2. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Education Grant Formula Adjustment 
Act of 1999''.
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