[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2102 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2102

To provide financial assistance for school construction after a violent 
                          or traumatic crisis.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2013

  Ms. Esty (for herself, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. 
   Courtney, and Mr. Himes) introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide financial assistance for school construction after a violent 
                          or traumatic crisis.

    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 ``Helping Communities Rebuild After 
Deadly School Shootings and Other Traumatic Events Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANT AUTHORITY FOR SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION.

    Section 4121 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 7131) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph 
                (10);
                    (B) in paragraph (8), by striking ``and'' after the 
                semicolon; and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (8) the following:
            ``(9) from the funds appropriated under subsection (c), and 
        notwithstanding section 4154(1), the provision of financial 
        assistance (not to exceed 50 percent of the total cost 
        specified in the application) for a local educational agency 
        that has an application approved by the Secretary and serves a 
        school in which the learning environment has been disrupted due 
        to a violent or traumatic crisis that took place on the school 
        campus, to enable such local educational agency to carry out--
                    ``(A) the acquisition (by purchase, lease, 
                donation, or otherwise) of an interest in improved or 
                unimproved real property that the local educational 
                agency deems necessary to commence or continue an 
                appropriate learning environment in a public elementary 
                or secondary school, as a result of damage incurred by 
                a violent or traumatic crisis; and
                    ``(B) the construction of new facilities, or the 
                renovation, repair, or alteration of existing 
                facilities, that the local educational agency deems 
                necessary to commence or continue an appropriate 
                learning environment in a public elementary or 
                secondary school, as a result of damage incurred by a 
                violent or traumatic crisis; and''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out the activities described in subsection (a)(9) 
such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2014 and each of the 4 
succeeding fiscal years. Funds made available to carry out subsection 
(a)(9) shall remain available until expended.''.
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