[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 595 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 595

 To amend title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to complete payments under 
  such title to local educational agencies eligible for such payments 
                         within 3 fiscal years.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 16, 2011

Mrs. Murray (for herself and Mr. Thune) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to complete payments under 
  such title to local educational agencies eligible for such payments 
                         within 3 fiscal years.

    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 ``Impact Aid Timely Repayment Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. TIMELY PAYMENTS.

    Section 8010 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 7710) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Timely Payments.--
            ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary 
        shall pay a local educational agency the full amount that the 
        agency is eligible to receive under this title for a fiscal 
        year not later than September 30 of the second fiscal year 
        following the fiscal year for which such amount has been 
        appropriated if, not later than 1 calendar year following the 
        fiscal year in which such amount has been appropriated, such 
        local educational agency submits to the Secretary all the data 
        and information necessary for the Secretary to pay the full 
        amount that the agency is eligible to receive under this title 
        for such fiscal year.
            ``(2) Payments with respect to fiscal years in which 
        insufficient funds are appropriated.--For a fiscal year in 
        which the amount appropriated under section 8014 is 
        insufficient to pay the full amount a local educational agency 
        is eligible to receive under this title, paragraph (1) shall be 
        applied by substituting `is available to pay the agency' for 
        `the agency is eligible to receive' each place it appears.''.
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