[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8472 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
H.R.8472
One Hundred Sixteenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty
An Act
To provide that, due to the disruptions caused by COVID-19, applications
for impact aid funding for fiscal year 2022 may use certain data
submitted in the fiscal year 2021 application.
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 Coronavirus Relief Act''.
SEC. 2. IMPACT AID PROGRAM.
Due to the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 and
notwithstanding sections 7002(j) and 7003(c) of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7702(j), 7703(c)), a local
educational agency desiring to receive a payment under section 7002 or
7003 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 7702, 7703) for fiscal year 2022 that also
submitted an application for such payment for fiscal year 2021 shall,
in the application submitted under section 7005 of such Act (20 U.S.C.
7705) for fiscal year 2022--
(1) with respect to a requested payment under section 7002 of
such Act--
(A) use the data described in section 7002(j) of such Act
relating to calculating such payment that was submitted by the
local educational agency in the application for fiscal year
2021; or
(B) use the data relating to calculating such payment for
the fiscal year required under section 7002(j) of such Act; and
(2) with respect to a requested payment under section 7003 of
such Act--
(A) use the student count data relating to calculating such
payment that was submitted by the local educational agency in
the application for fiscal year 2021, provided that payments
for fiscal year 2022 shall be calculated by the Secretary using
the expenditures and rates described in clauses (i), (ii),
(iii), and (iv) of section 7003(b)(1)(C) of such Act that would
otherwise apply for fiscal year 2022; or
(B) use the student count data relating to calculating such
payment for the fiscal year required under section 7003(c) of
such Act.
SEC. 3. MIGRANT EDUCATION PROGRAM.
Due to the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 and
notwithstanding subsections (a)(1) and (f)(1) of section 1303 of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6393), for
the purposes of making determinations under subsections (a)(1) and (f)
of such section 1303 for fiscal year 2021 and all subsequent fiscal
years for which school year 2019-2020 data would be used in the
calculations under section 1303(a)(1) of such Act, the Secretary of
Education shall use school year 2018-2019 data or school year 2019-2020
data, whichever data are greater, wherever school year 2019-2020 data
would otherwise be required.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.