S.Amdt. 4322

SA 4322. Mr. TESTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle F of title V, add the following:

SEC. 583. GAO REPORT ON IMPACT AID CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS.

(a) In General.--The Comptroller General of the United
States shall conduct a comprehensive study that--
(1) examines the implementation of section 8007 of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (for fiscal
year 2016 and any preceding fiscal year, and as in effect for
such fiscal year) and section 7007 of that Act (for each of
fiscal years 2017 and 2018, and as in effect for such fiscal
year), including a comparison of--
(A) the distribution of payments between subparagraphs (A)
and (B) of subsection (a)(3) of those sections, as
applicable, for the period of the 10 fiscal years preceding
the fiscal year of the study;
(B) other Federal funding made available to local
educational agencies eligible to receive funding under
subsection (a)(3) of those sections; and
(C) the overall level of available capital funding of local
educational agencies eligible to receive funding under
subsection (a)(3) of those sections compared to other
comparable local educational agencies;
(2) evaluates unmet need as of the date of enactment of
this section for housing of professionals employed to work at
schools operated by local educational agencies eligible to
receive funding under subsection (a)(3)(B) of section 7007 of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (as in
effect for fiscal year 2017);
(3) to the extent practicable, determines the age,
condition, and remaining utility of school facilities for
those local educational agencies enrolling students described
in subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 7003(a)(1) of that Act
(as in effect for fiscal year 2017) that are eligible to
receive a basic support payment under--
(A) section 8003(b) of that Act (for any of fiscal years
2009 through 2016, and as in effect for such fiscal year);
and
(B) section 7003(b) of that Act (for any of fiscal years
2017 and 2018, and as in effect for such fiscal year); and
(4) recommends a method by which the Federal Government may
develop a school facility condition index for a school
facility of a local educational agency eligible to receive
funding under 7007(a)(3) of that Act (as in effect for fiscal
year 2017) that limits the reporting burden to the maximum
extent practicable on the eligible local educational agencies
included in the index.
(b) Reporting.--The Comptroller General shall submit a
report containing the conclusions of the study under
subsection (a) to--
(1) the Committees on Indian Affairs, Armed Services, and
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate; and
(2) the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular, and Alaska Native
Affairs and the Committees on Education and the Workforce and
Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
(c) Timeframe.--The Comptroller General shall complete the
study under subsection (a) and submit the report under
subsection (b) by the date that is not later than 18 months
after the date of enactment of this Act.
(d) Definition of School Facility.--In this section, the
term ``school facility'' has the meaning given the term in
section 7013 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7713), as in effect for fiscal year 2017.
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