PPE for Safe Schools Act
This bill provides funding for grants to state educational agencies and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies to purchase sanitation supplies and personal protective equipment, provide staff training, and hire additional support staff to clean and sanitize school facilities and buses.
[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8664 Introduced in House (IH)]
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116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8664
To provide funds to local educational agencies for personal protective
equipment for educators and other staff, and students.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 23, 2020
Mr. Garcia of Illinois (for himself, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mrs. Watson
Coleman, Mr. Mfume, Ms. Pressley, Mrs. Beatty, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms.
Norton, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Takano, Ms. Ocasio-
Cortez, Mr. Soto, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr.
McGovern, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Raskin, Mr.
Khanna, Mr. Kildee, Mr. San Nicolas, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Johnson of
Texas, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Vela, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mrs.
Napolitano, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Suozzi, Ms. Lee of California, Mr.
Hastings, Ms. Fudge, Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms.
Escobar, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Cicilline, and Mr. Smith of Washington)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Education and Labor
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A BILL
To provide funds to local educational agencies for personal protective
equipment for educators and other staff, and students.
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 ``PPE for Safe Schools Act''.
SEC. 2. PPE FOR SCHOOLS.
(a) Grants to States.--
(1) Program authorized.--
(A) In general.--The Secretary of Education, in
consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, shall make grants in the amount described in
subparagraph (A) to each State educational agency with
an approved application.
(B) Grant amounts.--The amount of each grant under
subparagraph (A) shall be allocated by the Secretary to
each State educational agency in the same proportion as
the State educational agency received under part A of
title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) for the most recent
fiscal year.
(2) Applications.--
(A) Application requirements.--To receive a grant
under this section, a State educational agency shall
submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in
such manner, and containing such information as the
Secretary may reasonably require.
(B) Secretarial notifications.--
(i) Inviting applications.--The Secretary
shall issue a notice inviting applications not
later than 30 days after the date of enactment
of this Act.
(ii) Approval or denial.--The Secretary
shall approve or deny an application for a
grant under this section not later than 30 days
after receipt of the application.
(3) Uses of funds.--A State educational that receives a
grant under this Act--
(A) shall use to not less than 98 percent of the
grant to award subgrants to local educational agencies
in the State in proportion to the amount of funds each
such local educational agency received under part A of
title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) for the most recent
fiscal year; and
(B) may reserve up to 2 percent for administrative
costs and emergency needs with respect to COVID-19, as
determined by the State educational agency.
(b) Subgrants to Local Educational Agencies.--
(1) Applications.--To receive a subgrant under this
section, a local educational agency shall submit an application
to the appropriate State educational agency at such time, in
such manner, and containing such information as the State
educational agency may require.
(2) Uses of funds.--A local educational agency that
receives a subgrant under this section shall use the subgrant
for one or more of the following:
(A) Purchasing supplies to sanitize and clean the
facilities of, and the buses used by, the elementary
schools and secondary schools served by such local
educational agency.
(B) Purchasing personal protective equipment for
educators and other staff, and students.
(C) Providing training on the use of the equipment
and supplies described in subparagraphs (A) and (B).
(D) Hiring additional support staff for the
cleaning and sanitization described in subparagraph
(A).
(c) Reporting.--Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment
of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate, the Committee on Education and Labor of
the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives a report that includes--
(1) the amount of each grant awarded under this Act, and
the State educational agency receiving the grant; and
(2) the percentage of students benefitting from funds
awarded under this Act who are eligible for free or reduced
price lunch under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch
Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.).
(d) Funding.--There is appropriated, out of amounts in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated, $17,000,000,000, to remain available
through fiscal year 2021, to make grants under this section.
(e) Definitions.--In this Act, the terms ``elementary school'',
``local educational agency'', ``secondary school'', ``Secretary'',
``State'', and ``State educational agency'' have the meanings given the
terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
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