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Rebuild America’s Schools Act of 2019

S. 266 · 116th Congress · Jan 29, 2019 · Lineage

A BILL

To provide for the long-term improvement of public school facilities, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

(a)
Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Rebuild America’s Schools Act of 2019”.
(b)
Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 Definitions

In this Act:
(1)
Appropriate congressional committees— The term appropriate congressional committees means the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of the Senate.
(2)
Bureau-funded school— The term Bureau-funded school has the meaning given that term in section 1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021).
(3)
Covered funds— The term covered funds means funds received—
(A)
under title I of this Act;
(B)
from a school infrastructure bond; or
(C)
from a qualified zone academy bond (as such term is defined in section 54E of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as restored by section 201)).
(4)
ESEA Terms— The terms elementary school, outlying area, and secondary school have the meanings given those terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
(5)
Local educational agency— The term local educational agency has the meaning given that term in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801) except that such term does not include a Bureau-funded school.
(6)
Public school facilities— The term public school facilities means the facilities of a public elementary school or a public secondary school.
(7)
Qualified local educational agency— The term qualified local educational agency means a local educational agency that receives funds under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.).
(8)
School infrastructure bond— The term school infrastructure bond has the meaning given such term in section 54BB of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as added by section 202).
(9)
Secretary— The term Secretary means the Secretary of Education.
(10)
State— The term State means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.