IDEA Full Funding Act

II 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 866 To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MARCH 26, 2019 Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself and Mr. ROBERTS) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Edu- cation, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘IDEA Full Funding 4 Act’’. 5 SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO IDEA. 6 Section 611(i) of the Individuals with Disabilities 7 Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411(i)) is amended to read 8 as follows: 9 ‘‘(i) FUNDING.— 10 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:38 Mar 27, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S866.IS S866 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with BILLS 2 •S 866 IS ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For the purpose of car- 1 rying out this part, other than section 619, there are 2 authorized to be appropriated— 3 ‘‘(A) $14,036,427,000 or 16.2 percent of 4 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 5 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2020, and 6 there are hereby appropriated $1,651,792,000 7 or 1.9 percent of the amount determined under 8 paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 9 year 2020, which shall become available for ob- 10 ligation on July 1, 2020, and shall remain 11 available through September 30, 2021; 12 ‘‘(B) $15,908,525,000 or 17.9 percent of 13 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 14 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2021, and 15 there are hereby appropriated $3,523,890,000 16 or 3.9 percent of the amount determined under 17 paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 18 year 2021, which shall become available for ob- 19 ligation on July 1, 2021, and shall remain 20 available through September 30, 2022; 21 ‘‘(C) $18,030,313,000 or 19.8 percent of 22 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 23 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2022, and 24 there are hereby appropriated $5,645,678,000 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:38 Mar 27, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S866.IS S866 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with BILLS 3 •S 866 IS or 6.1 percent of the amount determined under 1 paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 2 year 2022, which shall become available for ob- 3 ligation on July 1, 2022, and shall remain 4 available through September 30, 2023; 5 ‘‘(D) $20,435,093,000 or 21.9 percent of 6 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 7 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2023, and 8 there are hereby appropriated $8,050,458,000 9 or 8.5 percent of the amount determined under 10 paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 11 year 2023, which shall become available for ob- 12 ligation on July 1, 2023, and shall remain 13 available through September 30, 2024; 14 ‘‘(E) $23,160,608,000 or 24.2 percent of 15 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 16 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2024, and 17 there are hereby appropriated $10,775,973,000 18 or 11.1 percent of the amount determined 19 under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 20 fiscal year 2024, which shall become available 21 for obligation on July 1, 2024, and shall remain 22 available through September 30, 2025; 23 ‘‘(F) $26,249,637,000 or 26.8 percent of 24 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:38 Mar 27, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S866.IS S866 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with BILLS 4 •S 866 IS whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2025, and 1 there are hereby appropriated $13,865,003,000 2 or 14 percent of the amount determined under 3 paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 4 year 2025, which shall become available for ob- 5 ligation on July 1, 2025, and shall remain 6 available through September 30, 2026; 7 ‘‘(G) $29,750,664,000 or 29.6 percent of 8 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 9 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2026, and 10 there are hereby appropriated $17,366,029,000 11 or 17.2 percent of the amount determined 12 under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 13 fiscal year 2026, which shall become available 14 for obligation on July 1, 2026, and shall remain 15 available through September 30, 2027; 16 ‘‘(H) $33,718,637,000 or 32.7 percent of 17 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 18 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2027, and 19 there are hereby appropriated $21,334,002,000 20 or 20.6 percent of the amount determined 21 under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 22 fiscal year 2027, which shall become available 23 for obligation on July 1, 2027, and shall remain 24 available through September 30, 2028; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:38 Mar 27, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S866.IS S866 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with BILLS 5 •S 866 IS ‘‘(I) $38,215,836,000 or 36.2 percent of 1 the amount determined under paragraph (2), 2 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2028, and 3 there are hereby appropriated $25,831,201,000 4 or 24.4 percent of the amount determined 5 under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 6 fiscal year 2028, which shall become available 7 for obligation on July 1, 2028, and shall remain 8 available through September 30, 2029; and 9 ‘‘(J) $43,312,845,000 or 40 percent of the 10 amount determined under paragraph (2), 11 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2029 and 12 each subsequent fiscal year, and there are here- 13 by appropriated $43,312,845,000 or 40 percent 14 of the amount determined under paragraph (2), 15 whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2029 and 16 each subsequent fiscal year, which— 17 ‘‘(i) shall become available for obliga- 18 tion with respect to fiscal year 2029 on 19 July 1, 2029, and shall remain available 20 through September 30, 2030; and 21 ‘‘(ii) shall become available for obliga- 22 tion with respect to each subsequent fiscal 23 year on July 1 of that fiscal year and shall 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:38 Mar 27, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S866.IS S866 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with BILLS 6 •S 866 IS remain available through September 30 of 1 the succeeding fiscal year. 2 ‘‘(2) AMOUNT.—With respect to each subpara- 3 graph of paragraph (1), the amount determined 4 under this paragraph is the product of— 5 ‘‘(A) the total number of children with dis- 6 abilities in all States who— 7 ‘‘(i) received special education and re- 8 lated services during the last school year 9 that concluded before the first day of the 10 fiscal year for which the determination is 11 made; and 12 ‘‘(ii) were aged— 13 ‘‘(I) 3 through 5 (with respect to 14 the States that were eligible for 15 grants under section 619); and 16 ‘‘(II) 6 through 21; and 17 ‘‘(B) the average per-pupil expenditure in 18 public elementary schools and secondary schools 19 in the United States.’’. 20 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:38 Mar 27, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S866.IS S866 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with BILLS