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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 810
To ensure that there are no reductions in funding for critical education
programs for fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY27, 2025
Mr. M
ARKEYintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To ensure that there are no reductions in funding for critical
education programs for fiscal years 2025, 2026, and
2027, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘No Cuts to Public 4
Schools Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. MAINTAINING FUNDING FOR CERTAIN EDUCATION 6
PROGRAMS. 7
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 8
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(1) CRITICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM .—The term 1
‘‘critical education program’’ means each of the fol-2
lowing: 3
(A) The Individuals with Disabilities Edu-4
cation Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.). 5
(B) Part A of title I of the Elementary 6
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 7
U.S.C. 6311 et seq.). 8
(C) Part B of title I of the Elementary 9
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 10
U.S.C. 6361 et seq.). 11
(D) Part C of title I of the Elementary 12
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 13
U.S.C. 6391 et seq.). 14
(E) Part D of title I of the Elementary 15
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 16
U.S.C. 6421 et seq.). 17
(F) Part A of title II of the Elementary 18
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 19
U.S.C. 6611 et seq.). 20
(G) Title III of the Elementary and Sec-21
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6801 22
et seq.). 23
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(H) Part A of title IV of the Elementary 1
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 2
U.S.C. 7101 et seq.). 3
(I) Part B of title IV of the Elementary 4
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 5
U.S.C. 7171 et seq.). 6
(J) Part B of title V of the Elementary 7
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 8
U.S.C. 7341 et seq.). 9
(K) Part A of title VI of the Elementary 10
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 11
U.S.C. 7401 et seq.). 12
(L) Title VII of the Elementary and Sec-13
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7701 14
et seq.). 15
(M) Subtitle B of title VII of the McKin-16
ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 17
11431 et seq.). 18
(2) R
EDUCTION IN FUNDING .—The term ‘‘re-19
duction in funding’’, when used with respect to a 20
critical education program for a fiscal year, means 21
the amount by which— 22
(A) the total amount of funding appro-23
priated for the critical education program for 24
fiscal year 2024 under title III of division D of 25
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the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1
2024 (Public Law 118–47; 138 Stat. 681), 2
which shall be determined based on the funding 3
allocation specified for the critical education 4
program in the explanatory statement described 5
in section 4 of such Act (Public Law 118–47; 6
138 Stat. 461); exceeds 7
(B) the total amount of funding appro-8
priated for the critical education program for 9
the fiscal year for which the determination is 10
being made under the applicable regular appro-11
priation Act for such fiscal year, which shall be 12
determined based on the funding allocation 13
specified for the critical education program in 14
the explanatory statement regarding such reg-15
ular appropriation Act. 16
(3) R
EGULAR APPROPRIATION ACT .—The term 17
‘‘regular appropriation Act’’— 18
(A) means an annual appropriation Act 19
providing new budget authority (as defined in 20
section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Im-21
poundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 22
622)) for the programs, projects, and activities 23
under the jurisdiction of a subcommittee of the 24
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Committee on Appropriations of the Senate 1
through September 30 of a fiscal year; and 2
(B) includes— 3
(i) an Act referred to in section 105 4
of title 1, United States Code; 5
(ii) a title, division, or other subdivi-6
sion of an Act or resolution that, if it were 7
a separate Act, would be an Act described 8
in subparagraph (A); and 9
(iii) a resolution or Act, or a title, di-10
vision, or other subdivision of a resolution 11
or Act, making continuing appropriations 12
through September 30 of a fiscal year. 13
(b) E
NSURINGADEQUATEFUNDING FORCRITICAL 14
E
DUCATIONPROGRAMS.— 15
(1) I
N GENERAL.—For each of fiscal years 16
2025, 2026, and 2027, effective on the date that is 17
30 days after the date of enactment of a regular ap-18
propriation Act appropriating funding for all critical 19
education programs for such fiscal year, there is ap-20
propriated, out of any money in the Treasury not 21
otherwise appropriated, for each critical education 22
program an amount equal to any reduction in fund-23
ing for the critical education program for such fiscal 24
year. 25
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(2) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated 1
under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year shall remain 2
available until expended. 3
(c) B
UDGETARYEFFECTS.— 4
(1) S
TATUTORY PAYGO SCORECARDS .—The 5
budgetary effects of this section shall not be entered 6
on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to 7
section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 8
2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(d)). 9
(2) S
ENATE PAYGO SCORECARDS .—The budg-10
etary effects of this section shall not be entered on 11
any PAYGO scorecard maintained for purposes of 12
section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress). 13
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