[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 42 (Friday, March 5, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1369]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 1334. Mr. TILLIS (for himself, Mr. Cramer, and Mr. Scott of South
Carolina) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment
SA 891 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. Murray,
Mr. Brown, Mr. Peters, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. Stabenow, Mr.
Tester, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Carper, Mr. Leahy, and Mr.
Sanders) to the bill H.R. 1319, to provide for reconciliation pursuant
to title II of S. Con. Res. 5; which was ordered to lie on the table;
as follows:
In section 2001, strike subsection (d) and insert the
following:
(d) Subgrants to Local Educational Agencies.--
(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), each State shall
reserve not less than 87.5 percent of the grant funds awarded
to the State under this section to allocate such funds as
subgrants to local educational agencies (including charter
schools that are local educational agencies) in the State in
proportion to the amount of funds such local educational
agencies and charter schools that are local educational
agencies received under part A of title I of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in the most recent fiscal
year.
(2) In-person learning.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), in
the case of a local educational agency that does not offer an
option for in-person instruction to the students served by
the local educational agency, that local educational agency
shall be eligible to receive an amount that is equal to 75
percent of the amount that the local educational agency would
otherwise have been eligible to receive under paragraph (1).
(3) Availability of funds.--Each State shall make
allocations under paragraph (1) to local educational agencies
in an expedited and timely manner and, to the extent
practicable, not later than 60 days after the receipt of such
funds.
(4) Tuition assistance for students with disabilities.--
(A) In general.--The State shall distribute remaining funds
reserved under this subsection to one or more State-approved
scholarship-granting organizations for the purpose of
providing tuition assistance for children with disabilities
in the State to attend non-public schools that provide an in-
person instruction option.
(B) Definitions.--In this paragraph, the term--
(i) ``remaining funds reserved under this subsection''
means the amounts made available under this subsection that a
State does not award as subgrant funds due to a local
educational agency that is eligible for a decreased subgrant
amount under paragraph (3); and
(ii) ``children with disabilities'' has the meaning given
the term in section 3 of the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1401).
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