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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 343
To require full funding of part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JANUARY30, 2025
Mr. V
ANHOLLEN(for himself, Mr. PADILLA, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. REED, Mr.
M
URPHY, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. SANDERS, Mr.
M
ERKLEY, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. BOOKER, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. HEINRICH,
Ms. S
MITH, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Ms. WARREN, and Mr. BENNET) intro-
duced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Com-
mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To require full funding of part A of title I of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Individ-
uals with Disabilities Education Act.
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 ‘‘Keep Our Promise to 4
America’s Children and Teachers Act’’ or the ‘‘Keep Our 5
PACT Act’’. 6
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 7
Congress finds the following: 8
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(1) Children are our Nation’s future and great-1
est treasure. 2
(2) A high-quality education is the surest way 3
for every child to reach his or her full potential. 4
(3) Part A of title I of the Elementary and Sec-5
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et 6
seq.) helps address inequity in education in school 7
districts across the United States to provide a high- 8
quality education to every student. 9
(4) The Individuals with Disabilities Education 10
Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) guarantees all children 11
with disabilities a first-rate education. 12
(5) The amendments made to such Act by the 13
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement 14
Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–446; 118 Stat. 2647) 15
committed Congress to providing 40 percent of the 16
national current average per-pupil expenditure for 17
students with disabilities. 18
(6) A promise made must be a promise kept. 19
SEC. 3. MANDATORY FUNDING OF PART A OF TITLE I OF 20
ESEA. 21
(a) D
EFINITION OFFISCALYEAR2025 PARTA OF 22
T
ITLEI APPROPRIATION.—In this section, the term ‘‘fis-23
cal year 2025 part A of title I appropriation’’ means the 24
amount appropriated for fiscal year 2025 for programs 25
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under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary 1
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.). 2
(b) F
UNDING.—There are appropriated, out of any 3
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated— 4
(1) for fiscal year 2026, an amount that equals 5
the difference between— 6
(A) the fiscal year 2025 part A of title I 7
appropriation; and 8
(B) $20,509,878,000 or the full amount 9
authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 10
for those programs, whichever is greater; 11
(2) for fiscal year 2027, an amount that equals 12
the difference between— 13
(A) the fiscal year 2025 part A of title I 14
appropriation; and 15
(B) $22,853,242,000 or the full amount 16
authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 17
for those programs, whichever is greater; 18
(3) for fiscal year 2028, an amount that equals 19
the difference between— 20
(A) the fiscal year 2025 part A of title I 21
appropriation; and 22
(B) $25,464,349,000 or the full amount 23
authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 24
for those programs, whichever is greater; 25
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(4) for fiscal year 2029, an amount that equals 1
the difference between— 2
(A) the fiscal year 2025 part A of title I 3
appropriation; and 4
(B) $28,373,788,000 or the full amount 5
authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 6
for those programs, whichever is greater; 7
(5) for fiscal year 2030, an amount that equals 8
the difference between— 9
(A) the fiscal year 2025 part A of title I 10
appropriation; and 11
(B) $31,615,646,000 or the full amount 12
authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 13
for those programs, whichever is greater; 14
(6) for fiscal year 2031, an amount that equals 15
the difference between— 16
(A) the fiscal year 2025 part A of title I 17
appropriation; and 18
(B) $35,227,904,000 or the full amount 19
authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 20
for those programs, whichever is greater; 21
(7) for fiscal year 2032, an amount that equals 22
the difference between— 23
(A) the fiscal year 2025 part A of title I 24
appropriation; and 25
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(B) $39,252,882,000 or the full amount 1
authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 2
for those programs, whichever is greater; 3
(8) for fiscal year 2033, an amount that equals 4
the difference between— 5
(A) the fiscal year 2025 part A of title I 6
appropriation; and 7
(B) $43,737,735,000 or the full amount 8
authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 9
for those programs, whichever is greater; 10
(9) for fiscal year 2034, an amount that equals 11
the difference between— 12
(A) the fiscal year 2025 part A of title I 13
appropriation; and 14
(B) $48,735,007,000 or the full amount 15
authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 16
for those programs, whichever is greater; and 17
(10) for fiscal year 2035, $54,303,244,000 or 18
the full amount authorized to be appropriated for 19
the fiscal year for those programs, whichever is 20
greater. 21
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SEC. 4. 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
‘‘(B) the average per-pupil expenditure in 23
public elementary schools and secondary schools 24
in the United States.’’. 25
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SEC. 5. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION. 1
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The amounts provided by the 2
amendments made by this Act are designated as an emer-3
gency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statu-4
tory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)). 5
(b) D
ESIGNATION IN HOUSE ANDSENATE.—The 6
amendments made by this Act are designated as being for 7
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4001(a)(1) 8
of S. Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent reso-9
lution on the budget for fiscal year 2022, and to legislation 10
establishing fiscal year 2026 through 2035 budget en-11
forcement in the House of Representatives. 12
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