[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2563 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2563

 To amend the Head Start Act to provide additional funding for States 
 with increased numbers of children eligible for participation in Head 
                Start programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 23, 2003

 Ms. Berkley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Head Start Act to provide additional funding for States 
 with increased numbers of children eligible for participation in Head 
                Start programs, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. HEAD START FUNDING FOR HIGH GROWTH STATES.

    Section 639 of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9834) is amended by 
adding the following new subsection at the end thereof:
    ``(c) High Growth States.--
            ``(1) Additional funding.--In addition to amounts 
        authorized to be appropriated under subsection (a) and (c), 
        there is authorized to be appropriated for each of the fiscal 
        years 2004 through 2008, $50,000,0000 for purposes of carrying 
        out the provisions of this subchapter in States that have an 
        increase in the total number of children under six below the 
        poverty level.
            ``(2) Determination of increase.--A State shall be 
        determined by the Secretary to have an increase in the number 
        of children under six below the poverty level for a fiscal year 
        if, using the most recent statistics available, the Secretary 
        determines that the number of such children in the State in 
        that fiscal year is greater than the number in the immediately 
        preceding fiscal year.
            ``(3) Allocation.--Amounts made available under this 
        subsection shall be allocated among the States with an increase 
        in the number of children under six below the poverty level 
        based on the ratio of each State's increase in the number of 
        such children to the total increase in the number of such 
        children for all States having such an increase.''.
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