To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to clarify the maintenance of effort requirement for local educational agencies.

Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to allow local educational agencies (LEAs) that receive federal assistance for the education of disabled children under the Act to reduce their spending for the education of such children if that reduction is attributable to reductions in their spending for employment related benefits for special education personnel.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1226 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1226

To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to clarify the 
   maintenance of effort requirement for local educational agencies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2015

  Mr. Ribble introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to clarify the 
   maintenance of effort requirement for local educational agencies.

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

SECTION 1. EXCEPTION TO MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT REQUIREMENT FOR LOCAL 
              EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES.

    Section 613(a)(2)(B) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education 
Act (20 U.S.C. 1413(a)(2)(B)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (iii)(III), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in clause (iv), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new clause:
                            ``(v) the reduction of expenditures for 
                        employment related benefits provided to special 
                        education personnel such as pay, retirement 
                        contributions, annual and sick leave, and 
                        health and life insurance.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 1 shall take effect beginning fiscal 
year 2016.
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