Impact Aid Coronavirus Relief Act

Impact Aid Coronavirus Relief Act

This bill allows local educational agencies (LEAs) participating in the Impact Aid Program to use the student count and federal property valuation data from their FY2021 program applications for their FY2022 program applications. The program provides funding to LEAs that have lost property tax revenue due to the presence of tax-exempt federal property or to those that have experienced increased expenditures due to enrollment of federally connected children (e.g., children living on Indian lands or military bases).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8075 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8075

      To provide that, due to the disruptions caused by COVID-19, 
   applications for impact aid funding for fiscal year 2022 may use 
      certain data submitted in the fiscal year 2021 application.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 21, 2020

 Mr. Courtney (for himself and Mr. Johnson of South Dakota) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                               and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
      To provide that, due to the disruptions caused by COVID-19, 
   applications for impact aid funding for fiscal year 2022 may use 
      certain data submitted in the fiscal year 2021 application.

    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 ``Impact Aid Coronavirus Relief Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF PRIOR APPLICATION STUDENT COUNT DATA FOR FISCAL YEAR 
              2022 IMPACT AID APPLICATIONS.

    Due to the public health emergency 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 2022 that also 
submitted an application for such payment for fiscal year 2021 may, in 
the application submitted under section 7005 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 
7705) for fiscal year 2022--
            (1) with respect to a requested payment under section 7002 
        of such Act, use the Federal property valuation data relating 
        to calculating such payment that was submitted by the local 
        educational agency in the application for fiscal year 2021;
            (2) with respect to a requested payment under section 7003 
        of such Act, use the student count data relating to calculating 
        such payment that was submitted by the local educational agency 
        in the application for fiscal year 2021, provided that for 
        purposes of the calculation of payments for fiscal year 2022 
        under section 7003(b)(1) of such Act, such payments shall be 
        based on utilizing fiscal year 2020 data (from academic year 
        2018-2019) to include total current expenditures, local 
        contribution rates, and per pupil expenditures; or
            (3) with respect to a requested payment under section 7002 
        or 7003 of such Act, use the student count or Federal property 
        valuation data relating to calculating such payment for the 
        fiscal year required under section 7002(j) or 7003(c) of such 
        Act, as applicable.
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