[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2228 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2228

 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow 
States to count certain students formerly identified as limited English 
proficient as being within the limited English proficient subgroup, and 
 certain students formerly identified as students with disabilities as 
         being within the students with disabilities subgroup.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 4, 2009

 Mr. Boozman 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 allow 
States to count certain students formerly identified as limited English 
proficient as being within the limited English proficient subgroup, and 
 certain students formerly identified as students with disabilities as 
         being within the students with disabilities subgroup.

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

SECTION 1. ALLOWING STATES TO COUNT CERTAIN STUDENTS FORMERLY 
              IDENTIFIED AS LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENT OR AS STUDENTS 
              WITH DISABILITIES AS CONTINUING TO BE MEMBERS OF THAT 
              SUBGROUP.

    Section 1111(b)(2)(C)(v)(II) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311(b)(2)(C)(v)(II)) is amended--
            (1) in item (cc) by inserting before the semicolon the 
        following: ``, which may, at the discretion of the State, 
        include students who no longer are identified as students with 
        disabilities but who were, in any of the preceding three school 
        years, identified as students with disabilities''; and
            (2) in item (dd) by inserting before the semicolon the 
        following: ``, which may, at the discretion of the State, 
        include students who no longer are identified as students with 
        limited English proficiency but who were, in any of the 
        preceding three school years, identified as students with 
        limited English proficiency''.
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