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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 1277
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
APRIL3, 2025
Mr. V
ANHOLLEN(for himself, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. REED, Mr.
S
ANDERS, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr.
M
ERKLEY, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. COONS, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Ms. BALD-
WIN, Mr. MURPHY, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. HEINRICH, Mr. KAINE, Ms. WAR-
REN, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. PETERS, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Ms.
H
ASSAN, Ms. CORTEZMASTO, Ms. SMITH, Ms. ROSEN, Mr. PADILLA,
Mr. W
ARNOCK, Mr. FETTERMAN, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. KIM, Ms. BLUNT
R
OCHESTER, Ms. SLOTKIN, Mr. WARNER, and Ms. ALSOBROOKS) intro-
duced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Com-
mittee on Health, Education, 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
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SEC. 2. MANDATORY FUNDING OF THE INDIVIDUALS WITH 1
DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT. 2
Section 611(i) of the Individuals with Disabilities 3
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411(i)) is amended to read 4
as follows: 5
‘‘(i) F
UNDING.— 6
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—For the purpose of car-7
rying out this part, other than section 619, there are 8
authorized to be appropriated— 9
‘‘(A) $16,661,928,000 or 11.6 percent of 10
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 11
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2026, and 12
there are hereby appropriated $6,425,048,000 13
or 4.5 percent of the amount determined under 14
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 15
year 2026, which shall become available for ob-16
ligation on July 1, 2026, and shall remain 17
available through September 30, 2027; 18
‘‘(B) $19,531,844,000 or 13.4 percent of 19
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 20
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2027, and 21
there are hereby appropriated $8,372,932,000 22
or 5.7 percent of the amount determined under 23
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 24
year 2027, which shall become available for ob-25
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ligation on July 1, 2027, and shall remain 1
available through September 30, 2028; 2
‘‘(C) $22,896,084,000 or 15.3 percent of 3
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 4
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2028, and 5
there are hereby appropriated $10,911,357,000 6
or 7.3 percent of the amount determined under 7
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 8
year 2028, which shall become available for ob-9
ligation on July 1, 2028, and shall remain 10
available through September 30, 2029; 11
‘‘(D) $26,839,795,000 or 17.6 percent of 12
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 13
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2029, and 14
there are hereby appropriated $14,219,357,000 15
or 9.3 percent of the amount determined under 16
paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for fiscal 17
year 2029, which shall become available for ob-18
ligation on July 1, 2029, and shall remain 19
available through September 30, 2030; 20
‘‘(E) $31,462,786,000 or 20.2 percent of 21
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 22
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2030, and 23
there are hereby appropriated $18,530,244,000 24
or 11.9 percent of the amount determined 25
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under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 1
fiscal year 2030, which shall become available 2
for obligation on July 1, 2030, and shall remain 3
available through September 30, 2031; 4
‘‘(F) $36,882,058,000 or 23.1 percent of 5
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 6
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2031, and 7
there are hereby appropriated $24,148,064,000 8
or 15.2 percent of the amount determined 9
under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 10
fiscal year 2031, which shall become available 11
for obligation on July 1, 2031, and shall remain 12
available through September 30, 2032; 13
‘‘(G) $43,234,768,000 or 26.5 percent of 14
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 15
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2032, and 16
there are hereby appropriated $31,469,041,000 17
or 19.3 percent of the amount determined 18
under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 19
fiscal year 2032, which shall become available 20
for obligation on July 1, 2032, and shall remain 21
available through September 30, 2033; 22
‘‘(H) $50,681,693,000 or 30.4 percent of 23
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 24
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2033, and 25
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there are hereby appropriated $41,009,521,000 1
or 24.6 percent of the amount determined 2
under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 3
fiscal year 2033, which shall become available 4
for obligation on July 1, 2033, and shall remain 5
available through September 30, 2034; 6
‘‘(I) $59,411,305,000 or 34.9 percent of 7
the amount determined under paragraph (2), 8
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2034, and 9
there are hereby appropriated $53,442,392,000 10
or 31.4 percent of the amount determined 11
under paragraph (2), whichever is greater, for 12
fiscal year 2034, which shall become available 13
for obligation on July 1, 2034, and shall remain 14
available through September 30, 2035; and 15
‘‘(J) $69,644,540,000 or 40 percent of the 16
amount determined under paragraph (2), 17
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2035 and 18
each subsequent fiscal year, and there are here-19
by appropriated $69,644,540,000 or 40 percent 20
of the amount determined under paragraph (2), 21
whichever is greater, for fiscal year 2035 and 22
each subsequent fiscal year, which— 23
‘‘(i) shall become available for obliga-24
tion with respect to fiscal year 2035 on 25
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July 1, 2034, and shall remain available 1
through September 30, 2036; and 2
‘‘(ii) shall become available for obliga-3
tion with respect to each subsequent fiscal 4
year on July 1 of that fiscal year and shall 5
remain available through September 30 of 6
the succeeding fiscal year. 7
‘‘(2) A
MOUNT.—With respect to each subpara-8
graph of paragraph (1), the amount determined 9
under this paragraph is the product of— 10
‘‘(A) the total number of children with dis-11
abilities in all States who— 12
‘‘(i) received special education and re-13
lated services during the last school year 14
that concluded before the first day of the 15
fiscal year for which the determination is 16
made; and 17
‘‘(ii) were aged— 18
‘‘(I) 3 through 5 (with respect to 19
the States that were eligible for 20
grants under section 619); and 21
‘‘(II) 6 through 21; and 22
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‘‘(B) the average per-pupil expenditure in 1
public elementary schools and secondary schools 2
in the United States.’’. 3
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