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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 810 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To ensure that there are no reductions in funding for critical education |
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| 6 | 6 | | programs for fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY27, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. M |
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| 10 | 10 | | ARKEYintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To ensure that there are no reductions in funding for critical |
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| 14 | 14 | | education programs for fiscal years 2025, 2026, and |
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| 15 | 15 | | 2027, and for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Cuts to Public 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Schools Act’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. MAINTAINING FUNDING FOR CERTAIN EDUCATION 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | PROGRAMS. 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (a) D |
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| 24 | 24 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 8 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (1) CRITICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM .—The term 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | ‘‘critical education program’’ means each of the fol-2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | lowing: 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (A) The Individuals with Disabilities Edu-4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | cation Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.). 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (B) Part A of title I of the Elementary 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | U.S.C. 6311 et seq.). 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (C) Part B of title I of the Elementary 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | U.S.C. 6361 et seq.). 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (D) Part C of title I of the Elementary 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | U.S.C. 6391 et seq.). 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (E) Part D of title I of the Elementary 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | U.S.C. 6421 et seq.). 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (F) Part A of title II of the Elementary 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | U.S.C. 6611 et seq.). 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (G) Title III of the Elementary and Sec-21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6801 22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | et seq.). 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (H) Part A of title IV of the Elementary 1 |
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| 55 | 55 | | and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 2 |
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| 56 | 56 | | U.S.C. 7101 et seq.). 3 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (I) Part B of title IV of the Elementary 4 |
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| 58 | 58 | | and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 5 |
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| 59 | 59 | | U.S.C. 7171 et seq.). 6 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (J) Part B of title V of the Elementary 7 |
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| 61 | 61 | | and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 8 |
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| 62 | 62 | | U.S.C. 7341 et seq.). 9 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (K) Part A of title VI of the Elementary 10 |
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| 64 | 64 | | and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 11 |
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| 65 | 65 | | U.S.C. 7401 et seq.). 12 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (L) Title VII of the Elementary and Sec-13 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7701 14 |
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| 68 | 68 | | et seq.). 15 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (M) Subtitle B of title VII of the McKin-16 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 17 |
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| 71 | 71 | | 11431 et seq.). 18 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (2) R |
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| 73 | 73 | | EDUCTION IN FUNDING .—The term ‘‘re-19 |
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| 74 | 74 | | duction in funding’’, when used with respect to a 20 |
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| 75 | 75 | | critical education program for a fiscal year, means 21 |
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| 76 | 76 | | the amount by which— 22 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (A) the total amount of funding appro-23 |
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| 78 | 78 | | priated for the critical education program for 24 |
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| 79 | 79 | | fiscal year 2024 under title III of division D of 25 |
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| 83 | 83 | | the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1 |
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| 84 | 84 | | 2024 (Public Law 118–47; 138 Stat. 681), 2 |
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| 85 | 85 | | which shall be determined based on the funding 3 |
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| 86 | 86 | | allocation specified for the critical education 4 |
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| 87 | 87 | | program in the explanatory statement described 5 |
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| 88 | 88 | | in section 4 of such Act (Public Law 118–47; 6 |
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| 89 | 89 | | 138 Stat. 461); exceeds 7 |
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| 90 | 90 | | (B) the total amount of funding appro-8 |
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| 91 | 91 | | priated for the critical education program for 9 |
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| 92 | 92 | | the fiscal year for which the determination is 10 |
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| 93 | 93 | | being made under the applicable regular appro-11 |
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| 94 | 94 | | priation Act for such fiscal year, which shall be 12 |
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| 95 | 95 | | determined based on the funding allocation 13 |
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| 96 | 96 | | specified for the critical education program in 14 |
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| 97 | 97 | | the explanatory statement regarding such reg-15 |
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| 98 | 98 | | ular appropriation Act. 16 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (3) R |
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| 100 | 100 | | EGULAR APPROPRIATION ACT .—The term 17 |
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| 101 | 101 | | ‘‘regular appropriation Act’’— 18 |
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| 102 | 102 | | (A) means an annual appropriation Act 19 |
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| 103 | 103 | | providing new budget authority (as defined in 20 |
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| 104 | 104 | | section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Im-21 |
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| 105 | 105 | | poundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 22 |
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| 106 | 106 | | 622)) for the programs, projects, and activities 23 |
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| 107 | 107 | | under the jurisdiction of a subcommittee of the 24 |
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| 111 | 111 | | Committee on Appropriations of the Senate 1 |
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| 112 | 112 | | through September 30 of a fiscal year; and 2 |
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| 113 | 113 | | (B) includes— 3 |
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| 114 | 114 | | (i) an Act referred to in section 105 4 |
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| 115 | 115 | | of title 1, United States Code; 5 |
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| 116 | 116 | | (ii) a title, division, or other subdivi-6 |
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| 117 | 117 | | sion of an Act or resolution that, if it were 7 |
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| 118 | 118 | | a separate Act, would be an Act described 8 |
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| 119 | 119 | | in subparagraph (A); and 9 |
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| 120 | 120 | | (iii) a resolution or Act, or a title, di-10 |
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| 121 | 121 | | vision, or other subdivision of a resolution 11 |
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| 122 | 122 | | or Act, making continuing appropriations 12 |
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| 123 | 123 | | through September 30 of a fiscal year. 13 |
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| 124 | 124 | | (b) E |
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| 125 | 125 | | NSURINGADEQUATEFUNDING FORCRITICAL 14 |
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| 126 | 126 | | E |
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| 127 | 127 | | DUCATIONPROGRAMS.— 15 |
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| 128 | 128 | | (1) I |
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| 129 | 129 | | N GENERAL.—For each of fiscal years 16 |
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| 130 | 130 | | 2025, 2026, and 2027, effective on the date that is 17 |
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| 131 | 131 | | 30 days after the date of enactment of a regular ap-18 |
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| 132 | 132 | | propriation Act appropriating funding for all critical 19 |
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| 133 | 133 | | education programs for such fiscal year, there is ap-20 |
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| 134 | 134 | | propriated, out of any money in the Treasury not 21 |
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| 135 | 135 | | otherwise appropriated, for each critical education 22 |
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| 136 | 136 | | program an amount equal to any reduction in fund-23 |
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| 137 | 137 | | ing for the critical education program for such fiscal 24 |
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| 138 | 138 | | year. 25 |
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| 142 | 142 | | (2) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated 1 |
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| 143 | 143 | | under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year shall remain 2 |
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| 144 | 144 | | available until expended. 3 |
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| 145 | 145 | | (c) B |
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| 146 | 146 | | UDGETARYEFFECTS.— 4 |
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| 147 | 147 | | (1) S |
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| 148 | 148 | | TATUTORY PAYGO SCORECARDS .—The 5 |
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| 149 | 149 | | budgetary effects of this section shall not be entered 6 |
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| 150 | 150 | | on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to 7 |
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| 151 | 151 | | section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 8 |
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| 152 | 152 | | 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(d)). 9 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (2) S |
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| 154 | 154 | | ENATE PAYGO SCORECARDS .—The budg-10 |
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| 155 | 155 | | etary effects of this section shall not be entered on 11 |
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| 156 | 156 | | any PAYGO scorecard maintained for purposes of 12 |
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| 157 | 157 | | section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress). 13 |
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