[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 214 (Monday, December 13, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S9125]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                SUPPLEMENTAL IMPACT AID FLEXIBILITY ACT

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be discharged from 
further consideration of S. 2959 and the Senate proceed to its 
immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2959) to provide that, due to the disruptions 
     caused by COVID-19, applications for impact aid funding for 
     fiscal year 2023 may use certain data submitted in the fiscal 
     year 2022 application.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. SCHUMER. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read 
a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered 
made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2959) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed as follows:

                                S. 2959

       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 ``Supplemental Impact Aid 
     Flexibility Act''.

     SEC. 2. IMPACT AID PROGRAM.

       Due to the public health emergency directly 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 2023 that also submitted 
     an application for such payment for fiscal year 2022 shall, 
     in the application submitted under section 7005 of such Act 
     (20 U.S.C. 7705) for fiscal year 2023--
       (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 2022; 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 2022, provided that payments 
     for fiscal year 2023 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 2023; or
       (B) use the student count data relating to calculating such 
     payment for the fiscal year required under section 7003(c) of 
     such Act.

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