[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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