S.Amdt. 3255
What it does: Adds SEC. 353. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE at the end of subtitle F of title III
Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD)What it changes
1 change to S. 2400 · shown in the bill's text
Adds SEC. 353. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE at the end of subtitle F of title III
Adds a sectionIn S. 2400 · Placed on Calendar Senate
Of the amount authorized to be appropriated pursuant to section 301(5) for operation and maintenance for Defense-wide activities, $5,000,000 shall be available for payments under section 363 of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (as enacted into law by Public Law 106-398; 114 Stat. 1654A-77; 20 U.S.C. 7703a).
Inserted: SEC. 353. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE.
Inserted: (a) Findings.--The Senate finds the following:
Inserted: (1) There are approximately 750,000 school-aged children of members of the active duty Armed Forces in the United States.
Inserted: (2) Approximately 650,000 of those students are currently being served in public schools across the United States.
Inserted: (3) The Department of the Army has embarked on a housing initiative, the Residential Communities Initiative, which will result in 70,770 new family housing units at 34 installations and a corresponding increase in the number of school-aged children housed at those installations.
Inserted: (4) The Secretary of the Army is authorized to include new school facilities in privatized housing contracts; however, the Secretary of the Army has not been using this authority to its fullest advantage. As a result, local educational agencies are being severely impacted by increased student-age populations.
Inserted: (5) Local educational agencies are struggling under increasing financial burdens as a result of State budget cuts that have reduced the rate of growth for education spending to its lowest point since the 1990-1991 recession and this burden is exacerbated by a stagnate Federal education budget that actually cuts total education funding in fiscal year 2006 through fiscal year 2009 by $5,000,000.
Inserted: (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the Department of the Army should support, through a dedicated fund, the construction of schools in local educational agencies whose student populations are severely impacted by housing developed through the Residential Communities Initiative.
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At the end of subtitle F of title III, insert the following:
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SA 3255. Mr. SARBANES (for himself and Ms. Mikulski) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2400, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Services, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle F of title III, insert the following:
SEC. 353. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE.
(a) Findings.--The Senate finds the following:
(1) There are approximately 750,000 school-aged children of members of the active duty Armed Forces in the United States.
(2) Approximately 650,000 of those students are currently being served in public schools across the United States.
(3) The Department of the Army has embarked on a housing initiative, the Residential Communities Initiative, which will result in 70,770 new family housing units at 34 installations and a corresponding increase in the number of school-aged children housed at those installations.
(4) The Secretary of the Army is authorized to include new school facilities in privatized housing contracts; however, the Secretary of the Army has not been using this authority to its fullest advantage. As a result, local educational agencies are being severely impacted by increased student-age populations.
(5) Local educational agencies are struggling under increasing financial burdens as a result of State budget cuts that have reduced the rate of growth for education spending to its lowest point since the 1990-1991 recession and this burden is exacerbated by a stagnate Federal education budget that actually cuts total education funding in fiscal year 2006 through fiscal year 2009 by $5,000,000.
(b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the Department of the Army should support, through a dedicated fund, the construction of schools in local educational agencies whose student populations are severely impacted by housing developed through the Residential Communities Initiative.
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Senate amendment submitted
June 1, 2004