US Congress House Bill 3896 (Prior Session Legislation)

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March 29 2012 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amends the Impact Aid program (which compensates local educational agencies [LEAs] for the financial burden of federal activities affecting their areas) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to make certain LEAs eligible for emergency school repair grants and school modernization grants if they serve areas where at least 10% of the property is nontaxable due to the federal government's presence. Prohibits the Secretary of Education from requiring: (1) those LEAs to serve areas where more than 10% of the property is nontaxable due to the federal government's presence, or (2) other LEAs (those currently eligible for such grants by reason of having a student enrollment at least 40% of which resides on Indian lands) to have a student enrollment more than 40% of which resides on Indian lands before being deemed eligible for such grants.

To amend section 8007 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend eligibility for emergency and modernization grants to local educational agencies in which at least 10 percent of the property in each such agency is nontaxable due to the presence of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.

Rep Hastings, Doc

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-29	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2012-02-03	House	Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

HB3990 (Related) 2012-04-27 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 321.
SB595 (Related) 2011-03-16 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN03896:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3896ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3896ih.pdf