Sec. 2. Education
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Out of amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, there is appropriated to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund established under section 18001(b)(2) of the CARES Act ( Public Law 116–136 ), $1,300,000,000 to make elementary and secondary school emergency relief grants to State educational agencies, in accordance with subsection (b), for the purchase of internet-connected devices and associated internet connectivity services to support distance learning at elementary schools and secondary schools.
The Secretary of Education shall make such grants not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act. From the amounts made available for this section, the Secretary shall use $260,000,000 to allocate funds to each State that received funds under the Rural and Low-Income School Program under subpart 2 of part B of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7351 et seq.) in the same proportion as each such State received funds under that subpart for fiscal year 2019.
Not later than 30 days after receipt of funds under this paragraph, a State educational agency shall allocate those funds to rural local educational agencies in the State in the same proportion as each rural local educational agency received funds under the Rural and Low-Income School Program under subpart 2 of part B of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7351 et seq.) for fiscal year 2019 to enable those rural local educational agencies to carry out the activities described in subsection (a).
From the amounts made available to carry out this section, the Secretary shall use $1,040,000,000 to allocate funds to each State in the same proportion as each State received funds under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) for fiscal year 2019. Not later than 30 days after receipt of funds under this paragraph, a State educational agency shall allocate those funds to local educational agencies in the State in proportion to the amount of funds such local educational agencies received under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) for fiscal year 2019.
Grant funds provided under this section shall be used to supplement, not supplant, other Federal or State funds available to carry out activities described in this section. In this section: The terms elementary school , local educational agency , secondary school , Secretary , State , and State educational agency have the meanings given those terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 ). The term rural local educational agency means a local educational agency that is eligible for funds under the Rural and Low-Income School Program under subpart 2 of part B of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7351 et seq.).
The amounts provided under this section are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 ( 2 U.S.C. 933(g) ). In the Senate, this section is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
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