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H.R. 4540, The Fair Funding for Schools Act

  • This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.

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H.R. 4540 would reauthorize the impact aid program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

== Detailed Summary ==

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(LogFair Funding for Schools Act - 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 alter the formula for determining the payments due LEAs for federal ownership of property when appropriations for a fiscal year are insufficient to provide them with full compensation.

Alters the formula for determining the payments due LEAs for eligible federally-connected children.

Includes not only children
in average daily attendance, but also those enrolled pursuant to edita state open enrollment policy. Continues an LEA's eligibility for such payments while activities associated with military base closures and realignments or force structure changes or relocations are ongoing. Allows the wikicalculation of such payments using current student counts instead of prior fiscal year data when LEAs experience a specified influx of new students due to federal activities.

Alters the formula for determining the construction payments due LEAs that are eligible for other Impact Aid payments.

Divides 80% of the construction funds evenly between LEAs impacted by military dependent children
and beLEAs impacted by children residing on Indian lands, with the firstremainder reserved for emergency repair and modernization grants to provideLEAs serving Indian lands or experiencing a detailed summaryspecified influx of new students due to federal activities.

Alters the formula for determining whether a state's plan for equalizing assistance to its LEAs will except it from the prohibition on state aid to LEAs being affected by Impact Aid payments.

Requires new LEAs applying for Impact Aid to have boundaries established by state law and the authority to tax or receive an imputed local tax.

Reauthorizes appropriations for
the bill!)Impact Aid program.
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== Status of the Legislation ==

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Latest Major Action: 12/13/2007: Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
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== Points in Favor ==

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