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H.R. 7746 116th Congress House

HELP Act

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a formula grant program to provide funds to assist educational agencies with expenses related to resuming edu… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a formula grant program to provide funds to assist educational agencies with expenses related to resuming educational activities during the 2020-2021 school year arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.

Introduced: July 23, 2020 Introduced by: J. French Hill Republican · Arkansas See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Helping Educators with Learning Preparation Act or the HELP Act

This bill establishes a temporary grant program to assist schools with reopening and resuming instruction during the 2020-2021 school year in response to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.

Specifically, the Department of Education (ED) must award grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies to reopen schools and resume instruction during the 2020-2021 school year. ED must also reserve funds for outlying areas and the Bureau of Indian Education.

Subgrants must be used for certain expenses, such as educational technology, facility sanitization, and staffing.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7746: HELP Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-7746/
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"H.R. 7746: HELP Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-7746/.
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H.R. 7746, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-7746/.
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