[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3578 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3578

 To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to 
               provide full Federal funding of such part.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 2009

 Mr. Van Hollen (for himself, Mr. Platts, and Mr. Walz) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                                 Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to 
               provide full Federal funding of such part.

    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 ``Everyone Deserves Unconditional 
Access to Education (EDUCATE) Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO IDEA.

    Section 611(i) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 
(20 U.S.C. 1411(i)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(i) Funding.--
            ``(1) In general.--For the purpose of carrying out this 
        part, other than section 619, there are authorized to be 
        appropriated--
                    ``(A) $14,434,200,000 or 20.8 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2010, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $2,928,989,000 or 3.3 percent of the amount determined 
                under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
                year 2010, which shall become available for obligation 
                on July 1, 2010, and shall remain available through 
                September 30, 2011;
                    ``(B) $17,596,785,000 or 25 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2011, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $6,091,574,000 or 7.5 percent of the amount determined 
                under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
                year 2011, which shall become available for obligation 
                on July 1, 2011, and shall remain available through 
                September 30, 2012;
                    ``(C) $20,759,369,000 or 29 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2012, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $9,254,158,000 or 11.5 percent of the amount determined 
                under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
                year 2012, which shall become available for obligation 
                on July 1, 2012, and shall remain available through 
                September 30, 2013;
                    ``(D) $23,921,954,000 or 32.9 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2013, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $12,416,743,000 or 15.4 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2013, which shall become available for 
                obligation on July 1, 2013, and shall remain available 
                through September 30, 2014;
                    ``(E) $27,084,538,000 or 36.5 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2014, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $15,579,327,000 or 19 percent of the amount determined 
                under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 
                year 2014, which shall become available for obligation 
                on July 1, 2014, and shall remain available through 
                September 30, 2015;
                    ``(F) $30,247,123,000 or 40 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2015, and there are hereby appropriated 
                $18,741,912,000 or 22.5 percent of the amount 
                determined under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, 
                for fiscal year 2015, which shall become available for 
                obligation on July 1, 2015, and shall remain available 
                through September 30, 2016; and
                    ``(G) 40 percent of the amount determined under 
                paragraph (2) for fiscal year 2016 and each subsequent 
                fiscal year, and there are hereby appropriated 40 
                percent of the amount determined under paragraph (2) 
                minus $11,505,211,000 for fiscal year 2016 and each 
                subsequent fiscal year, which shall become available 
                for obligation with respect to fiscal year 2016 on July 
                1, 2016, and shall remain available through September 
                30, 2017, and with respect to each subsequent fiscal 
                year on July 1 of that fiscal year and shall remain 
                available through September 30 of the succeeding fiscal 
                year.
            ``(2) Amount.--The amount determined under this paragraph 
        is--
                    ``(A) the number of children with disabilities in 
                the school year preceding the fiscal year referred to 
                in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), or (G) of 
                paragraph (1) (as the case may be) in all States who 
                receive special education and related services--
                            ``(i) aged 3 through 5 if the States are 
                        eligible for grants under section 619, and
                            ``(ii) aged 6 through 21, multiplied by
                    ``(B) the average per-pupil expenditure in public 
                elementary schools and secondary schools in the United 
                States.''.

SEC. 3. OFFSETS.

    The amounts appropriated in 611(i) of the Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411(i)), as amended by section 2 
of this Act, shall be expended consistent with pay-as-you-go 
requirements
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