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HR 6733 110th Congress House

Midwest Schools Disaster Recovery Act

Official title: To provide assistance to local educational agencies in areas of the Midwest adversely affected by storms and severe flooding that occurred in May and June, 2008, and for other purposes.

Introduced: August 1, 2008 See on congress.gov
Education Disaster reliefEconomics and Public FinanceEducation of the disadvantagedElementary and secondary education
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Elementary educationEmergency ManagementFederal aid to educationFloodsHomelessIllinoisImpact aidIndian educationIndianaIowaMichiganMinnesotaMinoritiesMissouriNative Americans
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Aug 1, 2008
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1677)
Jul 31, 2008
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Jul 31, 2008
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 Latest action August 1, 2008

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1677)

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Midwest Schools Disaster Recovery Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make payments to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin to enable such states to assist their local educational agencies (LEAs) in recovering from the severe storms and flooding that hit the Midwest during the months of May and June, 2008.

Protects such LEAs, that serve major disaster areas due to those storms and floods, from experiencing a FY2009 reduction of school improvement funds under part A of title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Authorizes the Secretary to waive or modify the application of maintenance of effort and cost-sharing conditions on the receipt of educational funding by entities in states affected by such disaster.

Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) temporary emergency Impact Aid to states and, through them, to LEAs and Indian schools to enable such LEAs and schools to instruct students displaced by such disaster; and (2) assistance, consistent with the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, to LEAs serving students rendered homeless by such disaster.

Terminates this Act's programs on August 1, 2009.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3
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Foster, Bill
Illinois · Aug 1, 2008
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Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Jul 31, 2008
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Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Jul 31, 2008
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6733: Midwest Schools Disaster Recovery Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-6733/
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