To amend the impact aid program under section 8003 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include children who are citizens of the freely associated states in the computation of the amount of basic support payments to local educational agencies under the program.

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education, in computing the amount of basic support payments to local educational agencies under the impact aid program, to consider children who are citizens of the freely associated states (Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau).

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4787 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4787

 To amend the impact aid program under section 8003 of the Elementary 
    and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include children who are 
  citizens of the freely associated states in the computation of the 
 amount of basic support payments to local educational agencies under 
                              the program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2002

 Mrs. Mink of Hawaii introduced the following bill; which was referred 
            to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the impact aid program under section 8003 of the Elementary 
    and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include children who are 
  citizens of the freely associated states in the computation of the 
 amount of basic support payments to local educational agencies under 
                              the program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO IMPACT AID PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Section 8003(a) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7703(a)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
            ``(6) Children who are citizens of the freely associated 
        states.--For purposes of computing the amount of a payment for 
        a local educational agency under this subsection, the Secretary 
        shall consider children who are citizens of the Republic of the 
        Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the 
        Republic of Palau and who, during the preceding school year, 
        were in average daily attendance in the schools of such agency 
        and for whom such agency provided free public education to be 
        children described under paragraph (1)(B).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to the computation of the amount of a payment to a 
local educational agency for fiscal years beginning on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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