ELEVATE Act

Ensuring Linguistic Excellence and Vocational Aptitude by Teaching English Act or the ELEVATE Act

This bill makes changes in the treatment of Puerto Rico with respect to allotments for English Language Acquisition grants, to allow students who have migrated from Puerto Rico to the states to be fully counted in the annual grant allocation that states receive under such program.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4943 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4943

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide 
  that children who have relocated from Puerto Rico to the States are 
  fully considered for purposes of State allotments under the English 
                      Language Acquisition grants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 31, 2019

Mrs. Murphy of Florida (for herself and Mr. Diaz-Balart) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                                 Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide 
  that children who have relocated from Puerto Rico to the States are 
  fully considered for purposes of State allotments under the English 
                      Language Acquisition grants.

    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 ``Ensuring Linguistic Excellence and 
Vocational Aptitude by Teaching English Act'' or the ``ELEVATE Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF PUERTO RICO WITH RESPECT TO ALLOTMENTS FOR ENGLISH 
              LANGUAGE ACQUISITION GRANTS.

    (a) Treatment of Migrants From Puerto Rico.--Section 3201(5) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7011(5)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``in which the 
        primary language of instruction in public elementary schools 
        and secondary schools is English'' after ``any State''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``, other than Puerto 
        Rico,'' after ``States''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a)--
            (1) may only apply to fiscal years 2020 and 2021 if the 
        Secretary of Education determines that the application of such 
        amendments will not result in a State receiving an allotment 
        under title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
        of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6801 et seq.) for such fiscal year that is 
        less than the allotment such State received under such title in 
        fiscal year 2019; and
            (2) shall apply beginning on and after October 1, 2021.
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