Midwest Schools Disaster Recovery Act

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.

7/31/2008--Introduced.
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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Sponsor

• Rep. Phil Hare [D, IL-17]
• and 10 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Leonard Boswell [D, IA-3]
  • Rep. Bruce Braley [D, IA-1]
  • Rep. Jerry Costello [D, IL-12]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. Bill Foster [D, IL-14]
  • Rep. Jesse Jackson [D, IL-2]
  • Rep. Thomas Latham [R, IA-4]
  • Rep. David Loebsack [D, IA-2]
  • Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
  • Rep. John Shimkus [R, IL-19]
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Committees

• House Education and Labor

Amendments

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Amendments to H.R.6733

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
July 31, 2008

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• Aug 01, 2008: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1677)
• Introduced on Jul 31, 2008.
• Jul 31, 2008: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Elementary and secondary education
• Budgets
• Disaster relief
• Education
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• Education of the disadvantaged
• Elementary education
• Emergency management
• Federal aid to education
• Floods
• Homeless
• Illinois
• Impact aid
• Indian education
• Indiana
• Indians
• Iowa
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Minorities
• Missouri
• Secondary education
• Storms
• Welfare
• Wisconsin

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