S.Amdt. 411

SA 411. Mr. VITTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 98 proposed by Mr. Inouye (for himself and Mr. Baucus) to
the bill H.R. 1, making supplemental appropriations for job
preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency
and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal
stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 184, between lines 8 and 9, insert the following:
(4) Special rules regarding private schools.--
(A) Determination of number of poor children.--The
Secretary shall, in determining the number of poor children
for purposes of paragraph (2)(A), include in such number for
each local educational agency, the total number of poor
children who are served by private schools located in the
school attendance area served by the local educational
agency.
(B) Funds available for private schools.--
(i) In general.--Notwithstanding paragraph (2)(C) or any
other provision of this section, each local educational
agency that receives funds under paragraph (2) or (3) shall
collaborate with private schools located in the school
attendance area of the local educational agency, in order to
use the amount described in clause (ii) to carry out school
construction, repair, and renovation projects, consistent
with subsection (c) and the first amendment to the
Constitution, for such private schools.
(ii) Amount for private schools.--For each local
educational agency that receives funds under paragraph (2) or
paragraph (3), the amount described in this clause shall be
an amount that bears the same relation to the total amount of
such funds received by the local educational agency, as the
number of poor children served by private schools located in
the school attendance area served by the local educational
agency for the most recent school year for which data are
available, bears to the total number of poor children served
by the local educational agency and by such private schools
for such school year.
(C) Regulations.--The Secretary shall promulgate
regulations as necessary to carry out this paragraph.
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