[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4957 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4957

 To ensure an appropriate balance between resources and accountability 
              under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2004

   Mr. John introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure an appropriate balance between resources and accountability 
              under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

    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 the ``Keeping Our Education Promise to 
America's Children Act of 2004''.

SEC. 2. DEFERRAL OF FEDERAL MANDATES IF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FAILS TO 
              MAKE MINIMUM APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) Deferral of Certain Requirements.--Section 1116 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6316) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i) Deferral.--No school or local educational agency may be 
identified for or subject to the requirements of school improvement, 
corrective action, or restructuring under this section for any school 
year for which the amounts appropriated for the corresponding fiscal 
year for the purpose of carrying out this part are less than 97 percent 
of the following:
            ``(1) $20,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2005.
            ``(2) $22,750,000,000 for fiscal year 2006.
            ``(3) $25,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2007.''.
    (b) Deferral of Requirements for Teachers and Paraprofessionals.--
Section 1119 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 6319) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(m) Deferral.--A State educational agency may defer the 
commencement, suspend the implementation, or modify but not cease the 
development, of the requirements of this section (for the State 
educational agency and local educational agencies within the State) for 
1 school year for each fiscal year for which the amounts appropriated 
to carry out subparts 1 through 4 of part A of title II are less than 
97 percent of the following:
            ``(1) $3,016,000,000 for fiscal year 2005.
            ``(2) $3,076,000,000 for fiscal year 2006.
            ``(3) $3,143,000,000 for fiscal year 2007.''.
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