[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 109 (Tuesday, July 14, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5087]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2255. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2089 submitted by Mr. Alexander (for himself and Mrs. 
Murray) to the bill S. 1177, to reauthorize the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure that every child achieves; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       Beginning on page 228, strike line 21 and all that follows 
     through page 230, line 19, and insert the following:
       ``(a) State Allocations.--
       ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in subsection (b) and 
     paragraph (2), each State (other than the Commonwealth of 
     Puerto Rico) is entitled to receive under this part for a 
     fiscal year an amount equal to--
       ``(A) the sum of
       ``(i) the average number of identified eligible migratory 
     children, aged 3 through 21, residing in the State, based on 
     data for the preceding 3 fiscal years; and
       ``(ii) the number of identified eligible migratory 
     children, aged 3 through 21, who received services under this 
     part in summer or intersession programs provided by the State 
     during the previous fiscal year; multiplied by
       ``(B) 40 percent of the average per-pupil expenditure in 
     the State, except that the amount calculated under this 
     paragraph shall not be less than 32 percent, nor more than 48 
     percent, of the average per-pupil expenditure in the United 
     States.
       ``(2) Hold harmless.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), for 
     each of fiscal years 2016, 2017, and 2018, no State shall 
     receive under this part less than 90 percent of the amount 
     such State received under this part for the previous fiscal 
     year.'';

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